Global well-posedness, scattering and blow-up for the energy-critical focusing non-linear wave equation

DOI10.1007/S11511-008-0031-6MaRDI QIDQ732173zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. E. Kenig, Frank Merle

Publication date 9 October 2009

Published in Acta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610801

zbMATH Keywords

blow-upCauchy problemglobal solutionstationary solutionwell-posednessenergy spacesemi-linear equationenergy integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71)

Abstract: We prove, for the energy critcal, focusing NLW, that for Cauchy data (u_0, u_1) whose energy is smaller than that of (W,0), where W is the well-known radial positive solution to the corresponding ellipyic equation, the following dichotomy holds: a) if the homogeneous Sobolev norm H^1 of u_0 is smaller than that of W, we have global well-posedness and scattering, b) if the homogeneous Sobolev norm H^1 of u_0 is larger than that of W, there is blow-up in finite time. Our general approach is the one we introduced in our previous work on the corresponding problem for NLS (math.AP/0610266, Inventiones Math 2006, Online First), where we proved the corresponding result for NLS in the radial case. In the case of the wave equation we are able to treat general data by using a further conservation law in the energy space, the finite speed of propagation and Lorentz transformations to establish a crucial orthogonality property for " energy critical " elements. To prove the required rigidity theorem in the case of blow-up in finite time, we cannot use the invariance of the L^2 norm as in the case of NLS. Instead, (following earlier work of Merle-Zaag and of Giga-Kohn in the parabolic case) we introduce self-similar variables. We thus find a further Liapunov function which allows us to reduce matters to a degenerate elliptic problem with critical non-linearity. We use unique continuation to rule out the existence of non-zero solutions for the degenerate elliptic problem, thus completing the proof.

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