On traveling solitary waves and absence of small data scattering for nonlinear half-wave equations

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Abstract: We consider nonlinear half-wave equations with focusing power-type nonlinearity i pt_t u = sqrt{-Delta} , u - |u|^{p-1} u, quad mbox{with (t,x)inRimesRd} with exponents 1<p<infty for d=1 and 1<p<(d+1)/(d1) for dgeq2. We study traveling solitary waves of the form u(t,x) = e^{iomega t} Q_v(x-vt) with frequency omegainR, velocity vinRd, and some finite-energy profile QvinH1/2(Rd), Qvotequiv0. We prove that traveling solitary waves for speeds |v|geq1 do not exist. Furthermore, we generalize the non-existence result to the square root Klein--Gordon operator sqrtDD+m2 and other nonlinearities. As a second main result, we show that small data scattering fails to hold for the focusing half-wave equation in any space dimension. The proof is based on the existence and properties of traveling solitary waves for speeds |v|<1. Finally, we discuss the energy-critical case when p=(d+1)/(d1) in dimensions dgeq2.



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