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We study the Cauchy problem for 3-D nonlinear elastic waves satisfying the null condition with low regularity initial data. In the radially symmetric case, we prove the global existence of a low regularity solution for every small data in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Kunio Hidano , Dongbing Zha

We prove global existence for quasilinear wave equations outside of a wide class of obstacles. The obstacles may contain trapped hyperbolic rays as long as there is local exponential energy decay for the associated linear wave equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Jason Metcalfe , Christopher D. Sogge

In this paper, we establish the global existence of smooth solutions to general 4D quasilinear wave equations satisfying the first null condition with the short pulse initial data. Although the global existence of small data solutions to 4D…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Bingbing Ding , Zhouping Xin , Huicheng Yin

The aim of this article is to present an elementary proof of a global existence result for nonlinear wave equations satifying the null condition in an exterior domain. The novelty of our proof is to avoid completely the scaling operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-01 Soichiro Katayama , Hideo Kubo

We study the global existence of solutions to semilinear damped wave equations in the scattering case with derivative power-type nonlinearity on (1+3) dimensional nontrapping asymptotically Euclidean manifolds. The main idea is to exploit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Yige Bai , Mengyun Liu

We study the existence of global solutions to semilinear wave equations on exterior domains $\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\mathcal{K}$, $n\geq2$, with small initial data and nonlinear terms $F(\partial u)$ where $F\in C^\kappa$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Kerun Shao

We give an elementary new argument for global existence and exponential decay of solutions of quasilinear wave equations on Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole backgrounds, for appropriately small initial data. The core of the argument is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-19 Georgios Mavrogiannis

We consider the problem of small data global existence for a class of semilinear wave equations with null condition on a Lorentzian background $(\mathbb{R}^{3+1}, g)$ with a \textbf{time dependent metric $g$} coinciding with Minkowski…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Shiwu Yang

We consider the coupled systems of nonlinear wave and Klein-Gordon equations in two space dimensions with cubic nonlinearity. For this kind of systems, the small data global existence is already known if the cubic nonlinearity satisfies a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Minggang Cheng

We prove almost global existence for semilinear wave equations outside of nontrapping obstacles. We use the vector field method, but only use the generators of translations and Euclidean rotations. Our method exploits 1/r decay of wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Markus Keel , Hart Smith , Christopher D. Sogge

Consider, in dimension 3, a system of coupled Klein-Gordon equations with different speeds, and an arbitrary quadratic nonlinearity. We show, for data which are small, smooth, and localized, that a global solution exists, and that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Pierre Germain

We consider quasilinear wave equations in $(1+3)$-dimensions where the nonlinearity $F(u,u',u")$ is permitted to depend on the solution rather than just its derivatives. For scalar equations, if $(\partial_u^2 F)(0,0,0)=0$, almost global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Jason Metcalfe , Taylor Rhoads

In this article one will develop a new type of energy method based on a foliation of spacetime into hyperboloidal hypersurfaces . As we will see, with this method, some classical results such as global existence and almost global existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-23 Yue MA

We consider the Cauchy problem of coupled 3-D wave and Klein-Gordon equations with a quadratic form of nonlinearity. We show global existence under several conditions, including large derivative data for wave equations and the null…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Guocong Shang

In this paper, we prove almost global existence of solutions to certain quasilinear wave equations with quadratic nonlinearities in infinite homogeneous waveguides with Neumann boundary conditions. We use a Galerkin method to expand the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jason Metcalfe , Ann Stewart

We consider the problem of small data global existence for quasilinear wave equations with null condition on a class of Lorentzian manifolds $(\mathbb{R}^{3+1}, g)$ with \textbf{time dependent} inhomogeneous metric. We show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Shiwu Yang

We consider the initial-boundary value problems on $\mathbb{R}^{+}\times \mathbb{R}^{+}$ for one-dimension systems of quasilinear wave equations with null conditions. We show that for homogeneous Dirichlet boundary values and sufficiently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Dongbing Zha

We provide a proof of global existence of solutions to quasilinear wave equations satisfying the null condition in certain exterior domains. In particular, our proof does not require estimation of the fundamental solution for the free wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jason Metcalfe , Christopher D. Sogge

We solve here the so called division problem for wave equations with generic quadratic non-linearities in high dimensions. Specifically, we show that semilinear wave equations which can be written as systems involving quadratic derivative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jacob Sterbenz

We show global existence of small solutions to the Cauchy problem for a system of quasi-linear wave equations in three space dimensions. The feature of the system lies in that it satisfies the weak null condition, though we permit the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Kunio Hidano , Kazuyoshi Yokoyama