Large Outgoing Solutions to Supercritical Wave Equations

Abstract

We prove the existence of global solutions to the energy-supercritical wave equation in R^{3+1} u_{tt}-\Delta u + |u|^N u = 0, u(0) = u_0, u_t(0) = u_1, 4<N<\infty, for a large class of radially symmetric finite-energy initial data. Functions in this class are characterized as being outgoing under the linear flow --- for a specific meaning of "outgoing" defined below. In particular, we construct global solutions for initial data with large (even infinite) critical Sobolev, Besov, Lebesgue, and Lorentz norms and several other large critical norms.Comment: New version. 43 pages. Removed the appendix, added a new one. To appear in IMR