Construction of multi-soliton solutions for semilinear equations in dimension 3

Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m.
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Seminar: 
Analysis

Event time: 
Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 4:00pm

Location: 
KT 207

Speaker: 
Istvan Kadar

Speaker affiliation: 
Princeton University

Event description: 
The existence of multi black hole solutions in General Relativity is one of the expectations from the final state conjecture, the analogue of soliton resolution. In this talk, I will present preliminary works in this direction via a semilinear toy model in dimension 3. In particular, I show 1) an algorithm to construct approximate solutions to the energy critical wave equation that converge to a sum of solitons at an arbitrary polynomial rate in (t-r); 2) a robust method to solve the remaining error terms for the nonlinear equation. The methods apply to energy supercritical problems.