On Lars Hörmander's remark on the characteristic Cauchy problem

Details On Lars Hörmander's remark on the characteristic Cauchy problem On Lars Hörmander's remark on the characteristic Cauchy problem

2005-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/math/0504481v2

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Analysis of PDEs

21 pages Typing errors corrected in the estimates for the last theorem, results extended from those of the previous version

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We extend the results of a work by L. H\"ormander in 1990 concerning the resolution of the characteristic Cauchy problem for second order wave equations with regular first order potentials. The geometrical background of this work was a spatially compact spacetime with smooth metric. The initial data surface was spacelike or null at each point and merely Lipschitz. We lower the regularity hypotheses on the metric and potential and obtain similar results. The Cauchy problem for a spacelike initial data surface is solved for a Lipschitz metric and coefficients of the first order potential that are $L^\infty_\mathrm{loc}$, with the same finite energy solution space as in the smooth case. We also solve the fully characteristic Cauchy problem with very slightly more regular metric and potential, namely a ${\cal C}^1$ metric and a potential with continuous first order terms and locally $L^\infty$ coefficients for the terms of order 0.

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