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Scattering for critical radial Neumann waves outside a ball

Analysis of PDEs 2020-04-21 v1

Abstract

We show that the solutions of the three-dimensional critical defocusing nonlinear wave equation with Neumann boundary conditions outside a ball and radial initial data scatter. This is to our knowledge the first result of scattering for a nonlinear wave equation with Neumann boundary conditions. Our proof uses the scheme of concentration-compactness/rigidity introduced by Kenig and Merle, extending it to our setup, together with the so-called channels of energy method to rule out compact-flow solutions. We also obtain, for the focusing equation, the same exact scattering/blow-up dichotomy below the energy of the ground-state as in R3\mathbb R^3.

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@article{arxiv.2004.08576,
  title  = {Scattering for critical radial Neumann waves outside a ball},
  author = {Thomas Duyckaerts and David Lafontaine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.08576},
  year   = {2020}
}
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