Almost global existence for quasilinear wave equations in three space dimensions

Details Almost global existence for quasilinear wave equations in three space dimensions Almost global existence for quasilinear wave equations in three space dimensions

2001-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/math/0110321v6

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Analysis of PDEs

This revised version of our paper will appear in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society

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We prove almost global existence for multiple speed quasilinear wave equations with quadratic nonlinearities in three spatial dimensions. We prove new results both for Minkowski space and also for nonlinear Dirichlet-wave equations outside of star shaped obstacles. The results for Minkowski space generalize a classical theorem of John and Klainerman. Our techniques only uses the classical invariance of the wave operator under translations, spatial rotations, and scaling. We exploit the $O(|x|^{-1})$ decay of solutions of the wave equation as opposed to the more difficult $O(|t|^{-1})$ decay. Accordingly, a key step in our approach is to prove a pointwise estimate of solutions of the wave equations that gives $O(1/t)$ decay of solutions of the inhomomogeneous linear wave equation based in terms of $O(1/|x|)$ estimates for the forcing term.

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