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Construction of multi-soliton solutions for the energy critical wave equation in dimension 3

Analysis of PDEs 2024-09-10 v1

Abstract

We study the energy-critical wave equation in three dimensions, focusing on its ground state soliton, denoted by WW. Using the Poincar\'e symmetry inherent in the equation, boosting WW along any timelike geodesic yields another solution. The slow decay behavior of WW, Wr1W\sim r^{-1}, indicates a strong interaction among potential multi-soliton solutions. In this paper, for arbitrary N0N\geq0, we provide an algorithmic procedure to construct approximate solutions to the energy critical wave equation that: (1) converge to a superposition of solitons, (2) have no outgoing radiation, (3) their error to solve the equation decays like (tr)N(t-r)^{-N}. Then, we show that this approximate solution can be corrected to a real solution.

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@article{arxiv.2409.05267,
  title  = {Construction of multi-soliton solutions for the energy critical wave equation in dimension 3},
  author = {Istvan Kadar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.05267},
  year   = {2024}
}