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Construction of two-bubble solutions for energy-critical wave equations
- American Journal of Mathematics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 141, Number 1, February 2019
- pp. 55-118
- 10.1353/ajm.2019.0002
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Abstract:
We construct pure two-bubbles for some energy-critical wave equations, that is solutions which in one time direction approach a superposition of two stationary states both centered at the origin, but asymptotically decoupled in scale. Our solution exists globally, with one bubble at a fixed scale and the other concentrating in infinite time, with an error tending to $0$ in the energy space. We treat the cases of the power nonlinearity in space dimension $6$, the radial Yang-Mills equation and the equivariant wave map equation with equivariance class $k\geq 3$. The concentration speed of the second bubble is exponential for the first two models and a power function in the last case.