Construction of multi-solitons for the energy-critical wave equation in dimension 5 (Q338106)

The paper addresses a rigorous proof of the existence of solutions for collisions between solitons in the nonlinear complex Lorentz-invariant D'Alembert equation, \[ u_{tt} - \Delta u -|u|^{4/3}u = 0, \] where \(\Delta\) is the Laplacian in the five-dimensional space. In this ``energy-critical'' case, the equation admits an exact weakly localized solution, in the form of \(u=(1 + r^2/15)^{-3/2}\), where \(r\) is the radial variable. The soliton may be set in motion by means of the Lorentz transformation. A difficult in the proof of the existence of collision solutions is the weak (non-exponential) localization of the soliton. The proof is also extended to the case of collisions between several solitons, assuming that their velocities are collinear.