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

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Abstract: In this paper we establish the existence of certain classes of solutions to the energy critical nonlinear wave equation in dimensions 3 and 5 assuming that the energy exceeds the ground state energy only by a small amount. No radial assumption is made. We find that there exist four sets in the natural energy space with nonempty interiors which correspond to all possible combinations of finite-time blowup on the one hand, and global existence and scattering to a free wave, on the other hand, as time approaches infinity. In our previous paper arxiv:1010.3799 we treated the radial case, and this paper provides the natural nonradial extension of these results. However, the present paper is self-contained and in fact develops a somewhat different formalism in order to handle the more complex nonradial situation.


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.




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