Global well-posedness of the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation below the energy norm

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2011.30.573zbMATH Open1228.35241arXiv0910.1850OpenAlexW2963055624MaRDI QIDQ550346FDOQ550346

Authors: Markus Keel, Tristan Roy, Terence Tao 

Publication date: 8 July 2011

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations in three dimensions are globally well-posed in $H_x^s$ in the Coulomb gauge for all $s>sqrt3/2approx0.866$. This extends previous work of Klainerman-Machedon cite{kl-mac:mkg} on finite energy data $sgeq1$, and Eardley-Moncrief cite{eardley} for still smoother data. We use the method of almost conservation laws, sometimes called the "I-method", to construct an almost conserved quantity based on the Hamiltonian, but at the regularity of $H_x^s$ rather than $H_x^1$. One then uses Strichartz, null form, and commutator estimates to control the development of this quantity. The main technical difficulty (compared with other applications of the method of almost conservation laws) is at low frequencies, because of the poor control on the $L_x^2$ norm. In an appendix, we demonstrate the equations' relative lack of smoothing - a property that presents serious difficulties for studying rough solutions using other known methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1850

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zbMATH Keywords

global well-posednessCauchy problemCoulomb gaugealmost conservation laws methodMaxwell-Klein-Gordon equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Overdetermined initial value problems for PDEs and systems of PDEs (35N20)

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