Scattering for the radial 3D cubic wave equation (Q2346747)

The authors consider the Cauchy problem for the cubic semi-linear wave equation in \(\mathbb{R}^{1+3}\), \[ u_{tt}- \Delta u + \mu u^3 = 0,\qquad \vec u(0) = (u_0, u_1), \] restricted to the radial setting and in the corresponding defocusing and focusing situations with respect to \(\mu = 1\) and \(\mu = -1\), respectively. Strichartz estimates allow to conclude that both the defocusing and focusing problems are locally well-posed in \(\dot{H}^{\frac{1}{2}} \times \dot{H}^{-\frac{1}{2}}(\mathbb{R}^3)\). It is well-known that there are solutions to the focusing problem that blow-up in finite time. Moreover, the so-called ``type-II solutions'', \(\vec u(t)\), are those whose critical norm \(\sup_{t \in I} \| \vec{u}(t)\|_{\dot{H}^{\frac{1}{2}} \times \dot{H}^{-\frac{1}{2}}}\) remains bounded on their maximal interval \(I\) of existence. For the last case, the authors prove that such kind of solutions exist globally-in-time and scatter to free waves in both time directions.