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Nonscattering solutions and blowup at infinity for the critical wave equation

Analysis of PDEs 2014-07-21 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the critical focusing wave equation (t2+Δ)u+u5=0(-\partial_t^2+\Delta)u+u^5=0 in R1+3\R^{1+3} and prove the existence of energy class solutions which are of the form [u(t,x)=t^\frac{\mu}{2}W(t^\mu x)+\eta(t,x)] in the forward lightcone (t,x)R×R3:xt,t1{(t,x)\in\R\times \R^3: |x|\leq t, t\gg 1} where W(x)=(1+(1/3)x2)(1/2)W(x)=(1+(1/3)|x|^2)^{-(1/2)} is the ground state soliton, μ\mu is an arbitrary prescribed real number (positive or negative) with μ1|\mu|\ll 1, and the error η\eta satisfies [|\partial_t \eta(t,\cdot)|_{L^2(B_t)} +|\nabla \eta(t,\cdot)|_{L^2(B_t)}\ll 1,\quad B_t:={x\in\R^3: |x|<t}] for all t1t\gg 1. Furthermore, the kinetic energy of uu outside the cone is small. Consequently, depending on the sign of μ\mu, we obtain two new types of solutions which either concentrate as tt\to\infty (with a continuum of rates) or stay bounded but do not scatter. In particular, these solutions contradict a strong version of the soliton resolution conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1201.3258,
  title  = {Nonscattering solutions and blowup at infinity for the critical wave equation},
  author = {Roland Donninger and Joachim Krieger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3258},
  year   = {2014}
}

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53 pages, final version, some additional typos have been fixed