Geometric analysis of 1+1 dimensional quasilinear wave equations

DOI10.4310/MRL.2023.V30.N3.A1arXiv1912.04692OpenAlexW2994686581MaRDI QIDQ6141575FDOQ6141575

Willie Wong, Leonardo Abbrescia

Publication date: 20 December 2023

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove global well-posedness of the initial value problem for a class of variational quasilinear wave equations, in one spatial dimension, with initial data that is not-necessarily small. Key to our argument is a form of quasilinear null condition (a "nilpotent structure") that persists for our class of equations even in the large data setting. This in particular allows us to prove global well-posedness for $C^2$ initial data of moderate decrease, provided the data is sufficiently close to that which generates a simple traveling wave. We take here a geometric approach inspired by works in mathematical relativity and recent works on shock formation for fluid systems. First we recast the equations of motion in terms of a dynamical double-null coordinate system; we show that this formulation semilinearizes our system and decouples the wave variables from the null structure equations. After solving for the wave variables in the double-null coordinate system, we next analyze the null structure equations, using the wave variables as input, to show that the dynamical coordinates are $C^1$ regular and covers the entire space-time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04692

zbMATH Keywords

quasilinear null conditionvariational quasilinear wave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Second-order quasilinear hyperbolic equations (35L72)

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