UC Berkeley

This article constitutes the final and main part of a three-paper sequence (Ann PDE, 2016. doi:10.1007/s40818-016-0006-4; Oh and Tataru, 2015. arXiv:1503.01561), whose goal is to prove global well-posedness and scattering of the energy critical Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation (MKG) on R1 + 4 for arbitrary finite energy initial data. Using the successively stronger continuation/scattering criteria established in the previous two papers (Ann PDE, 2016. doi:10.1007/s40818-016-0006-4; Oh and Tataru, 2015. arXiv:1503.01561), we carry out a blow-up analysis and deduce that the failure of global well-posedness and scattering implies the existence of a nontrivial stationary or self-similar solution to MKG. Then, by establishing that such solutions do not exist, we complete the proof.