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Long time smooth solutions of 3D cubic quasilinear wave systems with small weakly decaying initial data

Analysis of PDEs 2026-04-21 v1

Abstract

For the 3D cubic quasilinear wave system ciui=Gi(u,u,2u)=0α,β,γ11j,k,lmgαβγijklαujβukγul\square_{c_i} u^i=G^i(u,\partial u,\partial^2u)=\displaystyle\sum_{\substack{0\le|\alpha|,|\beta|,|\gamma|\le1 \\ 1\le j,k,l \le m}}g_{\alpha\beta\gamma}^{ijkl}\partial^{\alpha}u^j\partial^{\beta}u^k\partial^{\gamma}u^l, it is well known that global solution uu exists when the small smooth initial data (u,tu)t=0(u,\partial_tu)|_{t=0} =(u0(x),u1(x))=(u_0(x), u_1(x)) are compactly supported or decay rapidly at spatial infinity. However, when (u0,u1)(Hs+1,Hs)(u_0, u_1)\in (H^{s+1}, H^s) with s>52s>\frac{5}{2} are small, it remains unknown whether uu exists globally or not. In this paper, we show that if u0HN+1+u1HNε\|u_{0}\|_{H^{N+1}}+\|u_{1}\|_{H^N}\le\varepsilon (N6N\ge 6) is small, then the almost global solution uu exists in [0,Tε][0, T_{\varepsilon}] with TεeCε1T_{\varepsilon}\ge e^{C\varepsilon^{-1}} for the general G(u,u,2u)G(u,\partial u,\partial^2u) depending on uu and TεeCε2T_{\varepsilon}\ge e^{C\varepsilon^{-2}} for the nonlinearity G(u,2u)G(\partial u,\partial^2u) independent of uu, respectively. In addition, if a5xμxa(u0,u1)L2ε\displaystyle\sum_{|a|\le 5}\|\langle x\rangle^{\mu}\partial^a_x(u _0,u_1)\|_{L^2}\le\varepsilon holds for any fixed constant μ(0,1)\mu\in (0,1), then the solution uu exists globally and meanwhile the scattering property of uu is derived. Our main ingredients consist in establishing a series of new weighted LL2L^\infty-L^2 estimates and Strichartz estimates based on the strong Huygens' principle for 3D linear wave equations.

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@article{arxiv.2604.17683,
  title  = {Long time smooth solutions of 3D cubic quasilinear wave systems with small weakly decaying initial data},
  author = {Mu Gao and Jun Li and Huicheng Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.17683},
  year   = {2026}
}