In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem for focusing nonlinear beam equations with and without a damping term. By constructing two pairs of invariant flows, we obtain the exact thresholds for the global existence and blow-up to the above equations in the sense that both thresholds are explicitly expressed by the L2-norm of the fourth-order nonlinear elliptic equation without any damping.
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