Unconditional well-posedness below energy norm for the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon system

arXiv1710.11399MaRDI QIDQ6293288FDOQ6293288

Hartmut Pecher

Publication date: 31 October 2017

Abstract: The Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation $$ , $D^{mu}{D}_{mu}Phi=m^{2}Phi$ , where $$, $D_{mu}=partia{l}_{mu}-i{A}_{mu}$, in the (3+1)-dimensional case is known to be unconditionally well-posed in energy space, i.e. well-posed in the natural solution space. This was proven by Klainerman-Machedon and Masmoudi-Nakanishi in Coulomb gauge and by Selberg-Tesfahun in Lorenz gauge. The main purpose of the present paper is to establish that for both gauges this also holds true for data $Phi(0)$ in Sobolev spaces $H^s$ with less regularity, i.e. $s<1$, but $s$ sufficently close to $1$. This improves the (conditional) well-posedness results in both cases, i.e. uniqueness in smaller solution spaces of Bourgain-Klainerman-Machedon type, which were essentially known by Cuccagna, Selberg and the author for $s>frac34$ , and which in Coulomb gauge is also contained in the present paper. In fact, the proof consists in demonstrating that any solution in the natural solution space for some $s>s_0$ belongs to a Bourgain-Klainerman-Machedon space where uniqueness is known. Here $s_{0}approx0.914$ in Coulomb gauge and $s_{0}approx0.907$ in Lorenz gauge.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40)

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