Slowly Oscillating Solution of the Cubic Heat Equation

Abstract

In this paper, we are considering the Cauchy problem of the nonlinear heat equation $u\_t -\Delta u= u^{3 },\ u(0,x)=u\_0$. After extending Y. Meyer's result establishing the existence of global solutions, under a smallness condition of the initial data in the homogeneous Besov spaces $\dot{B}\_{p}^{-\sigma, \infty}(\mathbb{R}^{3})$, where $3 \textless{} p \textless{} 9$ and $\sigma=1-3/p$, we prove that initial data $u\_0\in \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^{3})$, arbitrarily small in ${\dot B^{-2/3,\infty}\_{9}}(\mathbb{R}^{3})$, can produce solutions that explode in finite time. In addition, the blowup may occur after an arbitrarily short time.