English

The global solvability of the Kirchhoff equation with Sobolev data

Analysis of PDEs 2022-09-07 v3 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We consider linear and non-linear Cauchy equations in the context of Sobolev spaces. In particular, we show the global existence of solutions to the Kirchhoff equation with initial data in the Sobolev spaces, a problem that has been open for more than eighty years. Our proof is based on a new uniform estimate for solutions to the linear equation with time-dependent coefficient and a fixed point argument. As an immediate consequence of our result, the global solvability of the Kirchhoff equation with initial data in the Gevrey spaces is also obtained.

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@article{arxiv.2207.02076,
  title  = {The global solvability of the Kirchhoff equation with Sobolev data},
  author = {Tokio Matsuyama and Lenny Neyt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02076},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Due to an error in the proof of Theorem 2.2, it is unsure if any of the subsequent results are correct