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

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2011.30.573MaRDI QIDQ550346zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Markus Keel, Tristan Roy, Terence Tao

Publication date 8 July 2011

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

almost conservation laws methodCauchy problemCoulomb gaugeglobal well-posednessMaxwell-Klein-Gordon equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

In their paper [Duke Math. J. 74, No.~1, 19--44 (1994; Zbl 0818.35123)], \textit{S. Klainerman} and \textit{M. Machedon} proved that the Cauchy problem for the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation in \(\mathbb R^{3+1}\) is globally well posed in the Coulomb gauge in \(H^s_x\) for \(s\geq 1\). In the paper under review this result is extended to indices \(s>\sqrt{3}/2\). The proof is based on a local well-posedness result, essentially due to \textit{S. Cuccagna} [Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 24, No. 5--6, 851--867 (1999; Zbl 0929.35151)] and on the method of almost conservation laws, introduced in previous authors' works. The almost conservation laws method allows to control the solution for long times and, consequently, to extend the local solution to a global one.

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