Global well-posedness and scattering of the (4+1)-dimensional Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation (Q328876)

This article constitutes the final and main part of the authors' three-paper sequence, whose goal is to prove global well-posedness and scattering of the energy critical Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation (MKG) on \(\mathbb{R}^{1+4}\) for arbitrary finite energy initial data. Using the successively stronger continuation/scattering criteria established in the previous two papers, the authors carry out a blow-up analysis and deduce that the failure of global well-posedness and scattering implies the existence of a nontrivial stationary or self-similar solution to MKG. Then, the proof is completed by establishing that such solutions do not exist. The basic strategy for proving the main theorem is by contradiction, following the scheme successfully developed by Sterbenz-Tataru in the setting of energy critical wave maps. An independent proof has been given by Krieger-Lührmann, following a version of the Bahouri-Gérard nonlinear profile decomposition and Kenig-Merle concentration compactness/rigidity scheme developed by Krieger-Schlag for the energy critical wave maps.