Existence of multi-solitons with any parameters for the 5D energy critical wave equation

Abstract

For the focusing, energy critical wave equation in dimension 5, we construct multi-solitons with any number of solitons, any choice of signs, speeds, scaling parameters and translation parameters. This requires to revisit in depth previous constructions of multi-solitons based on a unidirectional approach, to fully take into account the dimension of the space and the possibility for solitons to move in any direction. Then, as a consequence of this more general construction and of the arguments developed in a previous article, the inelastic nature of any collision of solitons is proved under a non-cancellation assumption on the parameters.