Estimates for radial solutions to the wave equation (Q2790262)

With the solution to the Cauchy problem for the linear homogeneous wave equation in \(d\)-dimensional space, one builds a maximal operator \(S\), and the aim of the paper is to obtain boundedness properties for this operator restricted to radial functions and in power-weighted spaces. One-dimensional operators that provide an upper bound for \(S\) are introduced. However, the cases of odd and even dimension \(d\) are separately handled. For instance for the odd-dimensional case, classical Hardy-Littlewood, Hardy and the remote maximal operators are used. Data of the Cauchy problem involve a null initial position and a radial initial velocity. At the end of the paper the almost everywhere convergence to the initial data is discussed.