Stefano Francesco Burzio, Joachim Krieger
We show that the finite time type II blow up solutions for the energy critical nonlinear wave equation [ \Box u = -u^5 ] on R3+1 constructed in \cite{KST}, \cite{KS1} are stable along a co-dimension one Lipschitz manifold of data perturbations in a suitable topology, provided the scaling parameter λ(t)=t−1−ν is sufficiently close to the self-similar rate, i. e. ν>0 is sufficiently small. This result is qualitatively optimal in light of the result of \cite{CNLW4}. The paper builds on the analysis of \cite{CondBlow}. 2018