Stable blowup profile for a semilinear heat equation with spatially inhomogeneous nonlinearity

Abstract

We study the focusing semilinear heat equation with an additional defocusing Hénon-type nonlinearity, the coupling of which is measured by a constant $c>0$. For $c\in (0,c^{\ast })$, the model admits a closed-form self-similar blowup solution in every space dimension $d\ge 1$. Restricting ourselves to the three-dimensional case, we study the stability of this solution under small non-radial perturbations. By working in intersection Sobolev spaces with additional angular regularity, we prove finite co-dimension stability for all admissible values of $c$. Furthermore, we analyze the spectrum of the underlying linearized operator and we prove stable blowup for the cubic-quintic case and $c$ sufficiently close to $c^{\ast }$. Finally, we discuss the situation for small values of $c$ and use a modified version of the classical GGMT criterion to give an upper bound on the number of unstable eigenvalues.

37 pages; minor changes made to match the published version