Scattering for the mass-critical nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations in three and higher dimensions

TL;DR

This paper studies the long-term behavior of solutions to the mass-critical nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations in three and higher dimensions, establishing conditions for scattering and blow-up, and introducing a novel approximation technique for low-frequency profiles.

Contribution

It proves a dichotomy between scattering and blow-up below ground state energy and introduces a new approximation method for non-algebraic nonlinearities.

Findings

Established scattering and blow-up criteria in the focusing case.

Proved energy scattering in the defocusing case.

Introduced a novel approximation of low-frequency profiles using nonlinear Schrödinger solutions.

Abstract

In this paper we consider the real-valued mass-critical nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations in three and higher dimensions. We prove the dichotomy between scattering and blow-up below the ground state energy in the focusing case, and the energy scattering in the defocusing case. We use the concentration-compactness/rigidity method as R. Killip, B. Stovall, and M. Visan [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 364 (2012)]. The main new novelty is to approximate the large scale (low-frequency) profile by the solution of the mass-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation when the nonlinearity is not algebraic.