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Dispersion for the wave equation inside strictly convex domains II: the general case

Analysis of PDEs 2023-04-10 v3

Abstract

We consider the wave equation on a manifold (Ω,g)(\Omega,g) of dimension d2d\geq 2 with smooth strictly convex boundary Ω\partial\Omega\neq\emptyset, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We construct a sharp local in time parametrix and then proceed to obtain dispersion estimates: our fixed time decay rate for the Green function exhibits a t1/4t^{1/4} loss with respect to the boundary less case. We precisely describe where and when these losses occur and relate them to swallowtail type singularities in the wave front set, proving that our decay is optimal. Moreover, we derive better than expected Strichartz estimates, balancing lossy long time estimates at a given incidence with short time ones with no loss: for d=3d=3, it heuristically means that, on average the decay loss is only t1/6t^{1/6}.

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@article{arxiv.1605.08800,
  title  = {Dispersion for the wave equation inside strictly convex domains II: the general case},
  author = {Oana Ivanovici and Richard Lascar and Gilles Lebeau and Fabrice Planchon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08800},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

final version, 87 pages, to appear in Annals of PDE