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$L^p$ estimates for wave equations with specific $C^{0,1}$ coefficients

Analysis of PDEs 2022-03-08 v3 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Peral/Miyachi's celebrated theorem on fixed time LpL^{p} estimates with loss of derivatives for the wave equation states that the operator (IΔ)α2exp(iΔ)(I-\Delta)^{- \frac{\alpha}{2}}\exp(i \sqrt{-\Delta}) is bounded on Lp(Rd)L^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{d}) if and only if αsp:=(d1)1p12\alpha \geq s_{p}:=(d-1)|\frac{1}{p}-\frac{1}{2}|. We extend this result to operators of the form L=j=1daj+djajj\mathcal{L} = -\sum \limits _{j=1} ^{d} a_{j+d}\partial_{j}a_{j}\partial_{j}, such that, for j=1,...,dj=1,...,d, the functions aja_{j} and aj+da_{j+d} only depend on xjx_{j}, are bounded above and below, but are merely Lipschitz continuous. This is below the C1,1C^{1,1} regularity that is known to be necessary in general for Strichartz estimates in dimension d2d \geq 2. Our proof is based on an approach to the boundedness of Fourier integral operators recently developed by Hassell, Rozendaal, and the second author. We construct a scale of adapted Hardy spaces on which exp(iL)\exp(i\sqrt{ \mathcal{L}} ) is bounded by lifting LpL^{p} functions to the tent space Tp,2(Rd)T^{p,2}(\mathbb{R}^{d}), using a wave packet transform adapted to the Lipschitz metric induced by the coefficients aja_j. The result then follows from Sobolev embedding properties of these spaces.

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@article{arxiv.2010.08326,
  title  = {$L^p$ estimates for wave equations with specific $C^{0,1}$ coefficients},
  author = {Dorothee Frey and Pierre Portal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.08326},
  year   = {2022}
}

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35 pages

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