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Slim Ibrahim, Nader Masmoudi, Kenji Nakanishi

2010.1.10ANALYSIS & PDE

DOI: 10.2140/apde.2011.4.405

Abstract

We show scattering versus blow-up dichotomy below the ground state energy for the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation, in the spirit of KenigMerle for the H critical wave and Schrödinger equations. Our result includes the H 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 the lack of scaling invariance in both the linear and the nonlinear terms.

Citation format

IBRAHIM, Slim; MASMOUDI, Nader; NAKANISHI, Kenji. Scattering threshold for the focusing nonlinear klein-gordon equation [preprint]. arXiv, 2010. arXiv:1001.1474.