The wave equation on hyperbolic spaces (Q414828)

The authors present a study on dispersive properties of the wave equation on real hyperbolic spaces and their application to nonlinear initial value problems. The study has been initiated by two of the authors in [\textit{J.-Ph. Anker} and \textit{V. Pierfelice}, Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Anal. Non Linéaire 26, No. 5, 1853--1869 (2009; Zbl 1176.35166)]. They consider the shifted wave equation and obtain a wider range of Strichartz estimates than in the Euclidean setting together with stronger well-posedness results. Sections 2--3 contain a review of some basics in spherical analysis on real hyperbolic spaces as well as in Sobolev spaces on hyperbolic spaces, involved in conservation of energy laws, in dispersive estimates and in Strichartz estimates for the shifted wave equation. By means of spherical harmonic analysis on hyperbolic spaces, pointwise estimates for the radial convolution kernel are obtained in Section 4. Estimates together with a criterion based on the Kunze-Stein phenomenon are further used in Section 5 to derive small time and large time dispersive estimates. Finally, in Section 6, a Strichartz estimate for the solution, given, as well known, by Duhamel's formula, to the Cauchy problem of an inhomogeneous linear wave equation on a hyperbolic space is proved. As an application of the Strichartz estimate, the local well-posedness of the nonlinear wave equation for initial data with low regularity is proved.