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We study the energy critical wave equation in 3 dimensions around a single soliton. We obtain energy boundedness (modulo unstable modes) for the linearised problem. We use this to construct scattering solutions in a neighbourhood of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Istvan Kadar

In the previous papers in this series, the global regularity conjecture for wave maps from two-dimensional Minkowski space $\R^{1+2}$ to hyperbolic space $\H^m$ was reduced to the problem of constructing a minimal-energy blowup solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-06 Terence Tao

We consider the problem of small data global existence for a class of semilinear wave equations with null condition on a Lorentzian background $(\mathbb{R}^{3+1}, g)$ with a \textbf{time dependent metric $g$} coinciding with Minkowski…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Shiwu Yang

We consider the energy supercritical wave maps from $\mathbb{R}^d$ into the $d$-sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ with $d \geq 7$. Under an additional assumption of 1-corotational symmetry, the problem reduces to the one dimensional semilinear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Tej-Eddine Ghoul , Slim Ibrahim , Van Tien Nguyen

We show that wave maps from Minkowski space $R^{1+n}$ to a sphere are globally smooth if the initial data is smooth and has small norm in the critical Sobolev space $\dot H^{n/2}$ in the high dimensional case $n \geq 5$. A major difficulty,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Terence Tao

In this paper, we study the focusing and defocusing energy--subcritical, nonlinear wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^{1+d}$ with radial initial data for $d = 4,5$. We prove that if a solution remains bounded in the critical space on its interval…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Casey Rodriguez

For any subcritical index of regularity $s>3/2$, we prove the almost global well posedness for the 2-dimensional semilinear wave equation with the cubic nonlinearity in the derivatives, when the initial data are small in the Sobolev space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Daoyuan Fang , Chengbo Wang

We prove the existence of global solutions to the focusing energy-supercritical semilinear wave equation in R^{3+1} for arbitrary outgoing large initial data, after we modify the equation by projecting the nonlinearity on outgoing states.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Marius Beceanu , Avy Soffer

We consider radially symmetric, energy critical wave maps from (1 + 2)-dimensional Minkowski space into the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^m$, $m \geq 1$, and prove global regularity and scattering for classical smooth data of finite energy. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Elisabetta Chiodaroli , Joachim Krieger , Jonas Luhrmann

This is the first part of a two-paper series that establishes the uniqueness and regularity of a threshold energy wave map that does not scatter in both time directions. Consider the two-sphere valued equivariant energy critical wave maps…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Jacek Jendrej , Andrew Lawrie

In this paper, we consider the wave equation in space dimension 3 with an energy-supercritical, focusing nonlinearity. We show that any radial solution of the equation which is bounded in the critical Sobolev space is globally defined and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-13 Thomas Duyckaerts , Carlos Kenig , Frank Merle

We prove scattering for the defocusing energy-critical non-linear wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions outside two strictly convex obstacles in dimension three. This is the first large data scattering result for such an equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 David Lafontaine , Camille Laurent

This paper proves global existence and sharp pointwise decay for solutions to nonlinear wave equations satisfying the semilinear null condition, on a class of three-dimensional, asymptotically flat, and notably, non-stationary spacetimes.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Shi-Zhuo Looi , Mihai Tohaneanu

We show that wave maps from Minkowski space $\R^{1+n}$ to a sphere $S^{m-1}$ are globally smooth if the initial data is smooth and has small norm in the critical Sobolev space $\dot H^{n/2}$, in all dimensions $n \geq 2$. This generalizes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Terence Tao

This is the second part of a two-paper series that establishes the uniqueness and regularity of a threshold energy wave map that does not scatter in both time directions. Consider the two-sphere valued equivariant energy critical wave maps…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Jacek Jendrej , Andrew Lawrie

For Schr\"odinger maps from $\R^2\times\R^+$ to the 2-sphere $\S^2$, it is not known if finite energy solutions can form singularities (``blowup'') in finite time. We consider equivariant solutions with energy near the energy of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephen Gustafson , Kyungkeun Kang , Tai-Peng Tsai

We consider co-rotational wave maps from (1+3)-dimensional Minkowski space into the three-sphere. This model exhibits an explicit blowup solution and we prove the asymptotic nonlinear stability of this solution in the whole space under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Paweł Biernat , Roland Donninger , Birgit Schörkhuber

In this paper we prove a sharp global existence result for semilinear wave equations with time-dependent scale-invariant damping terms if the initial data is small. More specifically, we consider Cauchy problem of $\partial_t^2u-\Delta…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Daoyin He , Yaqing Sun , Kangqun Zhang

We study global existence of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the wave equation with time-dependent damping and a power nonlinearity in the overdamping case. We prove the global well-posedness for small data in the energy space for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Masahiro Ikeda , Yuta Wakasugi

We derive the universal collapse law of degree 1 equivariant wave maps (solutions of the sigma-model) from the 2+1 Minkowski space-time,to the 2-sphere. To this end we introduce a nonlinear transformation from original variables to blowup…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Yu. N. Ovchinnikov , I. M. Sigal