The energy decay and asymptotics for a class of semilinear wave equations in two space dimensions (Q1935533)

In this article the Cauchy problem for the following semilinear wave equation is considered: \[ \begin{cases} u_{tt}-\Delta u=F(\partial u),\quad (t, x)\in (0, \infty)\times \mathbb R^2,\\ u(0, x)=\epsilon f(x), u_t(0, x)=\epsilon g(x),\quad x\in \mathbb R^2, \end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(\partial u=(\partial_t u, \partial_{x_1} u, \partial_{x_2} u)=(\partial_0 u, \partial_1 u, \partial_2 u)\), \(f, g\in {\mathcal C}_0^{\infty}(\mathbb R^2, \mathbb{C})\), \(\epsilon>0\) is a small parameter, \[ F(\partial u)=\sum_{a, b, c=0}^2p_{abc}(\partial_au)(\partial_b u)\overline{(\partial_c u)}, \] \(p_{abc}\) are complex constants, \({\text Re} F(\hat{w})\geq 0\), \(\hat{w}=(w_0, w)\in \{-1\}\times \mathbb{S}^1\). The authors prove that there exists a positive constant \(\epsilon_0\) so that for every \(\epsilon\in (0, \epsilon_0]\) the problem (1) has a unique global classical solution \(u\in {\mathcal C}^{\infty}([0, \infty)\times \mathbb R^2, \mathbb{C}),\) and there exists a function \(P=P(\tau, \sigma, w)\), \((\sigma, w)\in \mathbb R\times \mathbb{S}^1\), such that \[ \partial u(t, x)=\hat{w}(x)t^{-{1\over 2}}P(\log t, |x|-t, |x|^{-1} x)+O\Bigl(\epsilon t^{4\mu-{3\over 2}}\langle t-|x|\rangle^{-3\mu}\Bigr) \] for every \((t, x)\in [1, \infty)\times \mathbb R^2\), and the global solution \(u\) satisfies \[ \|u(t)\|_E^2\leq C_1\epsilon^{1\over {1-\mu}}(\log t)^{-{{1-2\mu}\over {2-2\mu}}}, \quad t\geq 2. \] Here \(\hat{w}(x)=(-1, |x|^{-1}x_1, |x|^{-1}x_2)\) for \((x_1, x_2)\in \mathbb R^2\), \(\|u(t)\|_E^2={1\over 2}\int_{\mathbb R^2}\Bigl(|\partial_t u(t, x)|^2+|\nabla_xu(t, x)|^2\Bigr) dx\), \(\mu<{1\over {10}}\) is enough small positive constant, \(C_1>0\) is a constant.