Continuous-in-time Bubbling for the Energy-Critical Heat Flow

Abstract

We show that any finite energy solution of the energy-critical nonlinear heat flow in dimensions $d\ge 3$ asymptotically resolves into a sum of possibly time-dependent solitons, a weak limit when the flow exists for finite time, and an error term that vanishes in the energy space. As a consequence, under the additional assumption that the initial data is nonnegative, we settle the Soliton Resolution Conjecture.

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