Improved decay for quasilinear wave equations close to asymptotically flat spacetimes including black hole spacetimes

arXiv2208.05439MaRDI QIDQ6407528FDOQ6407528

Authors: Shi-Zhuo Looi 

Publication date: 10 August 2022

Abstract: We study the quasilinear wave equation $Bo{x}_{g}phi=0$ where the metric $g=g(phi,t,x)$ is close to and asymptotically approaches $g(0,t,x)$, which equals the Schwarzschild metric or a Kerr metric with small angular momentum, as time tends to infinity. Under only weak assumptions on the metric coefficients, we prove an improved pointwise decay rate for the solution $phi$. One consequence of this rate is that for bounded $|x|$, we have the integrable decay rate $|phi(t,x)|leC{t}^{-1-min(delta,1)}$ where $delta>0$ is a parameter governing the decay, near the light cone, of the coefficient of the slowest-decaying term in the quasilinearity. We also obtain the same aforementioned pointwise decay rates for the quasilinear wave equation $(Bo{x}_{ildeg}+B^{alpha}(t,x)partia{l}_{a}lpha+V(t,x))phi=0$ with a more general asymptotically flat metric $ildeg=ildeg(phi,t,x)$ and with other time-dependent asymptotically flat lower order terms.

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