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Pointwise decay for semilinear wave equations in $\mathbb{R}^{!+3}$

Analysis of PDEs 2021-02-26 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this paper, we use Dafermos-Rodnianski's new vector field method to study the asymptotic pointwise decay properties for solutions of energy subcritical defocusing semilinear wave equations in R1+3\mathbb{R}^{1+3}. We prove that the solution decays as quickly as linear waves for p>1+172p>\frac{1+\sqrt{17}}{2}, covering part of the sub-conformal case, while for the range 2<p1+1722<p\leq \frac{1+\sqrt{17}}{2}, the solution still decays with rate at least t13t^{-\frac{1}{3}}. As a consequence, the solution scatters in energy space when p>2.3542p>2.3542. We also show that the solution is uniformly bounded when p>32p>\frac{3}{2}.

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@article{arxiv.1908.00607,
  title  = {Pointwise decay for semilinear wave equations in $\mathbb{R}^{!+3}$},
  author = {Shiwu Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00607},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

37 pages, combined the results in arXiv.1910.02230

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