Global existence for high dimensional quasilinear wave equations exterior to star-shaped obstacles (Q708962)

This paper gives a global existence result for the initial-boundary value problem for \(Lu=Q(u,Du,D^2u)\), where \(L\) is the wave operator in \(4+1\) dimensions, on the exterior of a star-shaped, smooth bounded obstacle \(K\), with Dirichlet conditions on the boundary of \(K\); here \(D\) and \(D^2\) stand for space-time derivatives of first and second order respectively. The nonlinearity is quadratic near the origin (its Taylor expansion contains only terms of order two or higher) and has the form \(Q=A(u,Du)+B(u,Du)D^2u\); in addition, one requires \(\partial^2_uA(0)=0\). Results in \(n\) space dimensions with \(n\geq 5\) that do not require the last condition are also mentioned. The proofs rely on weighted estimates and commutator arguments.