On the quasilinear wave equations in time dependent inhomogeneous media (Q2818342)

In this paper, the author considered the problem of small data global existence for quasilinear wave equations with null condition on a class of Lorentzian manifolds \((\mathbb{R}^{3+1},g)\) with time dependent inhomogeneous metric. More precisely, the equation under consideration is of the form \(\square_g \phi+B^{\mu\nu\gamma}\partial_\gamma \phi\partial_\mu\partial_\nu \phi=A^{\mu\nu}\partial_\mu \phi\partial_\nu \phi+F(\phi,\partial \phi)\), where the quadratic terms satisfy the classical null conditions \(B^{\mu\nu\gamma}\xi_\mu\xi_\nu\xi_\gamma=A^{\mu\nu}\xi_\mu\xi_\nu=0\) whenever \(\xi_0^2=\xi_1^2+\xi_2^2+\xi_3^2\), and \(F\) is cubic or higher. The first main result is that sufficiently small compactly supported data give rise to a unique global solution for a metric which is \(C^1\) close to the Minkowski metric inside some large cylinder \(\{(t, x)||x| \leq R\}\) and approaches the Minkowski metric of order \(|x|^{-1}+|x|^{-1/2}(t+R-|x|)^{-1/2}\) as \(|x| \rightarrow\infty\). The second main result gives weak but sufficient conditions on a given large solution of quasilinear wave equations such that the solution is globally stable under perturbations of initial data. The proof rely heavily on the integrated local energy estimates and \(p\)-weighted energy inequality.