# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

July  2014, 13(4): 1669-1683. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.1669

## Low regularity well-posedness for the 2D Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation in the Coulomb gauge

 1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, United States 2 Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA 92093-0112, United States

Received  December 2013 Revised  January 2014 Published  February 2014

We consider the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation in 2D in the Coulomb gauge. We establish local well-posedness for $s=\frac 14+\epsilon$ for data for the spatial part of the gauge potentials and for $s=\frac 58+\epsilon$ for the solution $\phi$ of the gauged Klein-Gordon equation. The main tool for handling the wave equations is the product estimate established by D'Ancona, Foschi, and Selberg. Due to low regularity, we are unable to use the conventional approaches to handle the elliptic variable $A_0$, so we provide a new approach.
Citation: Magdalena Czubak, Nina Pikula. Low regularity well-posedness for the 2D Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation in the Coulomb gauge. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2014, 13 (4) : 1669-1683. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.1669
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