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Scattering threshold for the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation

Analysis of PDEs 2010-06-15 v3

Abstract

We show scattering versus blow-up dichotomy below the ground state energy for the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation, in the spirit of Kenig-Merle for the H1H^1 critical wave and Schr\"odinger equations. Our result includes the H1H^1 critical case, where the threshold is given by the ground state for the massless equation, and the 2D square-exponential case, where the mass for the ground state may be modified, depending on the constant in the sharp Trudinger-Moser inequality. The main difficulty is lack of scaling invariance both in the linear and nonlinear terms.

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@article{arxiv.1001.1474,
  title  = {Scattering threshold for the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation},
  author = {Slim Ibrahim and Nader Masmoudi and Kenji Nakanishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1474},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

56 pages, no figure, minor corrections, to appear in Analysis & PDE

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