Scattering for critical radial Neumann waves outside a ball (Q832469)

In this paper, the authors consider the energy-critical nonlinear wave equation with Neumann boundary conditions outside a ball in dimension three. Based on the scheme of concentration-compactness/rigidity introduced by Kenig and Merle and the so-called channels of energy method, the authors obtain the scattering result for any radial initial data in the energy space for the defocusing case, and also the same exact scattering/blow-up dichotomy below the energy of the ground-state as in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) for the focusing case. This is the first result of scattering for a nonlinear wave equation with Neumann boundary conditions.