Counterexamples to local existence for quasilinear wave equations
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Counterexamples to local existence for quasilinear wave equations
zbMATH Open document ID: 0932.35149
author: Hans Lindblad
published in: Mathematical Research Letters
publication date: 2000-03-08T00:00:00Z
review text: The author considers the initial value problem for a wave equation in \(\mathbb{R}^{1+3}\); \[ \square u= (D^\ell u)D^{k-\ell} u,\quad D= (\partial_{x^1}- \partial_t), \] where \(0\leq \ell\leq k-\ell\leq 1\), \(\ell= 0,1\). In the semilinear case \(k-\ell\leq 1\), and in the quasilinear case \(k-\ell= 2\). Let \(\gamma= k\). It is shown that there exists initial data \((f,g)\in \dot H^\gamma(\mathbb{R}^3)\times \dot H^{\gamma-1}(\mathbb{R}^3)\) with compact support and with arbitrarily small norm such that the problem does not have any proper solution in \([0,T)\times \mathbb{R}^3\) for any \(T>0\). Here, a proper solution is a distributional solution with the property that it is a weak limit of a sequence of smooth solutions with data \((\phi_\varepsilon* f,\phi_\varepsilon* g)\), where \(\phi_\varepsilon\) is a molifier. The author also shows that there exist a function \(u\) and an open set \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^1_+\times \mathbb{R}^3\) such that \(\Omega\) is a domain of dependence for \(u\), and some norm of \(u(t,\cdot)\) is finite at the initial time \(t=0\), but infinite at any later time \(t>0\). Furthermore, in the quasilinear case \(u\) can be chosen so that \(\|D^\ell u\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}\) is arbitrarily small.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35L70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35L15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35A07
zbMATH DE Number: 1309081
zbMATH Keywords: domain of dependence
zbMATH Keywords: homogeneous Sobolev space
zbMATH Keywords: proper solution
reviewed by: Hiroki Tanabe
MaRDI profile type: Publication
Wikidata QID: Q125063469
DOI: 10.4310/MRL.1998.V5.N5.A5
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