We consider the energy-critical focusing wave equation in space dimension $$N\ge 3$$ . The has a nonzero radial stationary solution W, which is unique up to scaling and sign change. It conjectured (soliton resolution) that any radial, bounded energy norm of equation, behaves asymptotically as sum modulated Ws, decoupled by scaling, radiation term. A nonradiative definition exterior $$\{|x|>|t|\...