Dispersion and Strichartz estimates for the Liouville equation (Q5898672)

The authors consider the Liouville equation associated with a metric \(g\) of class \(C^2\). The purpose is to understand the link between the geometry of the geodesic associated to \(g\) and dispersion phenomena and to establish Strichartz estimates. The authors look for a class of metrics which preserve the same dispersion estimates as in the Euclidean case. Therefore they introduce the notion of dispersive and focusing metrics, and prove that persistence of these estimates is guaranteed for metrics of the former family and does not hold for the latter. Then they use their investigations on the link between dispersion estimates and geodesic to prove Strichartz estimates. More precisely, following H. Bahoury and J.-Y. Chemin, they use dispersion estimates both local in time and velocity and a time velocity splitting of the solutions to establish a local in time Strichartz estimates for generic metrics. Then they use this result and velocity moment effects to prove global in time Strichartz estimates restricting the class of metrics analyzed.