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Global existence for 2-D wave maps equation in exterior domains

Analysis of PDEs 2026-01-21 v1

Abstract

In the paper [H. Kubo, Global existence for exterior problems of semilinear wave equations with the null condition in 2D, Evol. Equ. Control Theory 2 (2013), no. 2, 319-335], for the 2-D semilinear wave equation system (t2Δ)vI=QI(tv,xv)(\partial_t^2-\Delta)v^I=Q^I(\partial_tv, \nabla_xv) (1IM1\le I\le M) in the exterior domain with Dirichlet boundary condition, it is shown that the small data smooth solution v=(v1,,vM)v=(v^1, \cdot\cdot\cdot, v^M) exists globally when the cubic nonlinearities QI(tv,xv)=O(tv3+xv3)Q^I(\partial_tv, \nabla_xv)=O(|\partial_tv|^3+|\nabla_xv|^3) satisfy the null condition. We now focus on the global Dirichelt boundary value problem of 2-D wave maps equation with the form uI=J,K,L=1MCIJKLuJQ0(uK,uL)\Box u^I=\sum_{J,K,L=1}^MC_{IJKL}u^JQ_0(u^K,u^L) (1IM)(1\le I\le M) and Q0(f,g)=tftgj=12jfjgQ_0(f,g)=\partial_tf\partial_tg-\sum_{j=1}^2\partial_jf\partial_jg in exterior domain. By establishing some crucial classes of pointwise spacetime decay estimates for the small data solution u=(u1,,uM)u=(u^1, \cdot\cdot\cdot, u^M) and its derivatives, the global existence of uu is shown.

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@article{arxiv.2501.18646,
  title  = {Global existence for 2-D wave maps equation in exterior domains},
  author = {Fei Hou and Huicheng Yin and Meng Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.18646},
  year   = {2026}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2411.06984