Global existence for a coupled wave system related to the Strauss conjecture (Q1691304)

For asymptotically flat space-time where an integrated local energy decay estimate is available, the authors proved a small data global existence result related to the Strauss conjecture, for a coupled system of semilinear wave equations. Previous results concern on the flat case of Minkowski space-time and the authors are able to obtain global results for very general space-times, which, as example, include nontrapping exterior domains, nontrapping asymptotically Euclidean manifolds and Schwarzschild/Kerr black hole backgrounds. The idea of proof is mainly in spirit to that of a recent work of \textit{J. Metcalfe} and \textit{C. Wang} [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 49, 4579--4594 (2017; Zbl 1387.35416)] on the Strauss conjecture on space-time. Near infinity, where the asymptotic flatness allows the authors to view the geometry as a small perturbation of Minkowski space, variants of the weighted Strichartz estimates are employed. The assumed localized energy estimate handles the remaining compact region, where the geometry has the most significant role.