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2019, Volume 39, Issue 12: 6979-6993. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019240

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The method of energy channels for nonlinear wave equations

Carlos E. Kenig^,

Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 5734 S University Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637-1514, USA

Received: October 2018

Revised: October 2018

Published: September 2019

The author is supported in part by NSF Grants DMS–1265249, DMS–1463746 and DMS–1800082

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This is a survey of some recent results on the asymptotic behavior of solutions to critical nonlinear wave equations.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35L70; Secondary: 35L15.

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