The global solvability of the Kirchhoff equation with Sobolev data

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Authors Tokio Matsuyama, Lenny Neyt

Publication date 5 July 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L20) Second-order quasilinear hyperbolic equations (35L72)

Abstract: We consider linear and non-linear Cauchy equations in the context of Sobolev spaces. In particular, we show the global existence of solutions to the Kirchhoff equation with initial data in the Sobolev spaces, a problem that has been open for more than eighty years. Our proof is based on a new uniform estimate for solutions to the linear equation with time-dependent coefficient and a fixed point argument. As an immediate consequence of our result, the global solvability of the Kirchhoff equation with initial data in the Gevrey spaces is also obtained.

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