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Global finite energy solutions of the Maxwell-scalar field system on the Einstein cylinder

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-20 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We prove the existence and uniqueness of global finite energy solutions of the Maxwell-scalar field system in Lorenz gauge on the Einstein cylinder. Our method is a combination of a conformal patching argument, the finite energy existence theorem in Lorenz gauge on Minkowski space of Selberg and Tesfahun, a careful localization of finite energy data, and null form estimates of Foschi-Klainerman type. Although we prove that the energy-carrying components of the solution maintain regularity, due to the incompleteness of the null structure in Lorenz gauge and the nature of our foliation-change arguments we find small losses of regularity in both the scalar field and the potential.

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@article{arxiv.2507.16750,
  title  = {Global finite energy solutions of the Maxwell-scalar field system on the Einstein cylinder},
  author = {Jean-Philippe Nicolas and Grigalius Taujanskas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.16750},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

46 pages, 5 figures; typo fixed in an endpoint wave-Sobolev space product in the proof of Lemma 8.2. No changes to proofs or results