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Dynamics of subcritical threshold solutions for the 4d energy-critical NLS

Analysis of PDEs 2025-08-05 v1

Abstract

We study dynamics of the 4dd energy-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation at the ground state energy. Previously, Duyckaerts and Merle [Geom. Funct. Anal. (2009)] proved that any radial solution with kinetic energy less than that of the ground state either scatters in both time directions or coincides (modulo symmetries) with a heteroclinic orbit, which scatters in one time direction and converges to the ground state in the other. We extend this result to the non-radial setting.

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@article{arxiv.2508.02608,
  title  = {Dynamics of subcritical threshold solutions for the 4d energy-critical NLS},
  author = {Zuyu Ma and Changxing Miao and Jason Murphy and Jiqiang Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02608},
  year   = {2025}
}

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35 pages