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Unconditional well-posedness below energy norm for the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon system

Analysis of PDEs 2017-11-01 v1

Abstract

The Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation αFαβ=Im(ΦDβΦ) \partial^{\alpha} F_{\alpha \beta} = -Im(\Phi \overline{D_{\beta} \Phi}) , DμDμΦ=m2Φ D^{\mu}D_{\mu} \Phi = m^2 \Phi , where Fαβ=αAββAαF_{\alpha \beta} = \partial_{\alpha} A_{\beta} - \partial_{\beta} A_{\alpha}, Dμ=μiAμD_{\mu} = \partial_{\mu} - iA_{\mu} , in the (3+1)-dimensional case is known to be unconditionally well-posed in energy space, i.e. well-posed in the natural solution space. This was proven by Klainerman-Machedon and Masmoudi-Nakanishi in Coulomb gauge and by Selberg-Tesfahun in Lorenz gauge. The main purpose of the present paper is to establish that for both gauges this also holds true for data Φ(0)\Phi(0) in Sobolev spaces HsH^s with less regularity, i.e. s<1s < 1, but ss sufficently close to 11. This improves the (conditional) well-posedness results in both cases, i.e. uniqueness in smaller solution spaces of Bourgain-Klainerman-Machedon type, which were essentially known by Cuccagna, Selberg and the author for s>34s > \frac{3}{4} , and which in Coulomb gauge is also contained in the present paper. In fact, the proof consists in demonstrating that any solution in the natural solution space for some s>s0s > s_0 belongs to a Bourgain-Klainerman-Machedon space where uniqueness is known. Here s00.914s_0 \approx 0.914 in Coulomb gauge and s00.907s_0 \approx 0.907 in Lorenz gauge.

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@article{arxiv.1710.11399,
  title  = {Unconditional well-posedness below energy norm for the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon system},
  author = {Hartmut Pecher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.11399},
  year   = {2017}
}

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