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On the quasilinear wave equations in time dependent inhomogeneous media

Analysis of PDEs 2015-06-18 v1

Abstract

We consider the problem of small data global existence for quasilinear wave equations with null condition on a class of Lorentzian manifolds (R3+1,g)(\mathbb{R}^{3+1}, g) with \textbf{time dependent} inhomogeneous metric. We show that sufficiently small data give rise to a unique global solution for metric which is merely C1C^1 close to the Minkowski metric inside some large cylinder {(t,x)xR}\{\left.(t, x)\right||x|\leq R\} and approaches the Minkowski metric weakly as x|x|\rightarrow \infty. Based on this result, we give weak but sufficient conditions on a given large solution of quasilinear wave equations such that the solution is globally stable under perturbations of initial data.

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@article{arxiv.1312.7264,
  title  = {On the quasilinear wave equations in time dependent inhomogeneous media},
  author = {Shiwu Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.7264},
  year   = {2015}
}

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