Scattering threshold for the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation

Analysis and PDE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 405-460

  Ibrahim, Slim ^a   Masmoudi, Nader ^b   Nakanishi, Kenji ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blow up solution; Ground state; Nonlinear Klein Gordon equation; Scattering theory; Sobolev critical exponent; Trudinger Moser inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857702891     PISSN: 21575045     EISSN: 1948206X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/apde.2011.4.405     Document Type: Article

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