Global solvability for systems of nonlinear wave equations with multiple speeds in two dimensions. (Q873244)

The Cauchy problem for the system of nonlinear equations \(u_{tt}^i-c_i^2\triangle u^i=F_i(u, \partial u, \partial ^2u)\), \(i=1,\dots m\) in \(R^2\times (0,\infty )\) and initial data \(u^i(x,0)=\varepsilon f_i(x)\), \(u^i_t(x,0)=\varepsilon g_i(x)\), \(x\in R^2\), where \(u=(u^1 ,\dots ,u^m)\), \(\partial =(\partial _t, \partial _1 ,\partial _2)\) and \(\varepsilon \) is a small parameter. Using the Fourier representation and energy estimates the authors prove the existence of a unique global solution to the problem for smooth initial data and a sufficiently small parameter \(\varepsilon .\)