Global dynamics of the nonradial energy-critical wave equation above the ground state energy (Q1948810)

The writers establish the existence of certain classes of solutions to the energy critical nonlinear wave equation in dimensions 3 and 5 under the assumption that the energy exceeds the ground state energy only by a small amount. The organisation of the paper is as follows: The authors first present the definition of the energy-critical nonlinear wave equation with a real valued function \(u\) in the energy space, which is the real Hilbert space. In the second part, the paper deals with issues of the critical wave equation, Hamiltonian formalism; the translation and scaling symmetries; a change of time and the static linearized operator; energy expansion; orthogonality conditions near the ground state; modulation equations; hyperbolic drivers. In the third part, the concepts of the distance function is explained, and two related lemmas are introduced. Section four treats the variational structure in the energy critical setting. Section five is devoted to the one-pass theorem. The proof for blow-up after ejection is given in part six. Finally, the scattering after ejection is presented in section seven by first construction of a critical element, and then by exclusion of a critical element.