# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

July  2019, 18(4): 1735-1767. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2019082

## Remarks on a system of quasi-linear wave equations in 3D satisfying the weak null condition

 1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, Mie University, 1577 Kurima-machiya-cho Tsu, Mie Prefecture 514-8507, Japan 2 Department of Applied Mathematics, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China

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Received  May 2018 Revised  November 2018 Published  January 2019

We give an alternative proof of the global existence result originally due to Hidano and Yokoyama for the Cauchy problem for a system of quasi-linear wave equations in three space dimensions satisfying the weak null condition. The feature of the new proof lies in that it never uses the Lorentz boost operator in the energy integral argument. The proof presented here has an advantage over the former one in that the assumption of compactness of the support of data can be eliminated and the amount of regularity of data can be lowered in a straightforward manner. A recent result of Zha for the scalar unknowns is also refined.

Citation: Kunio Hidano, Dongbing Zha. Remarks on a system of quasi-linear wave equations in 3D satisfying the weak null condition. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2019, 18 (4) : 1735-1767. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2019082
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Paris, 336 (2003), 901-906.  doi: 10.1016/S1631-073X(03)00231-0.  Google Scholar [15] J. Metcalfe, M. Nakamura and C. D. Sogge, Global existence of quasilinear, nonrelativistic wave equations satisfying the null condition, Japan. J. Math. (N.S.), 31 (2005), 391-472.  doi: 10.4099/math1924.31.391.  Google Scholar [16] J. Metcalfe and C. D. Sogge, Hyperbolic trapped rays and global existence of quasilinear wave equations, Invent. Math., 159 (2005), 75-117.  doi: 10.1007/s00222-004-0383-2.  Google Scholar [17] J. Metcalfe and C. D. Sogge, Long-time existence of quasilinear wave equations exterior to star-shaped obstacles via energy methods, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 38 (2006), 188-209.  doi: 10.1137/050627149.  Google Scholar [18] R. Racke, Lectures on Nonlinear Evolution Equations. Initial Value Problems, Aspects of Mathematics, E19. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1992. doi: 10.1007/978-3-663-10629-6.  Google Scholar [19] Y. Shibata and Y. Tsutsumi, On a global existence theorem of small amplitude solutions for nonlinear wave equations in an exterior domain, Math. Z., 191 (1986), 165-199.  doi: 10.1007/BF01164023.  Google Scholar [20] T. C. Sideris, Nonresonance and global existence of prestressed nonlinear elastic waves, Ann. of Math. (2), 151 (2000), 849–874. doi: 10.2307/121050.  Google Scholar [21] T. C. Sideris and S. -Y. Tu, Global existence for systems of nonlinear wave equations in 3D with multiple speeds, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 33 (2001), 477-488.  doi: 10.1137/S0036141000378966.  Google Scholar [22] C. D. Sogge, Global existence for nonlinear wave equations with multiple speeds, in Harmonic Analysis at Mount Holyoke (South Hadley, MA, 2001. eds. W. Beckner, A. Nagel, A. Seeger and H.F. Smith), 353–366, Contemp. Math., 320, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2003. doi: 10.1090/conm/320.  Google Scholar [23] J. Sterbenz, Angular regularity and Strichartz estimates for the wave equation. With an appendix by Igor Rodnianski, Int. Math. Res. Not., 2005, 187–231. doi: 10.1155/IMRN.2005.187.  Google Scholar [24] K. Yokoyama, Global existence of classical solutions to systems of wave equations with critical nonlinearity in three space dimensions, J. Math. Soc. Japan, 52 (2000), 609-632.  doi: 10.2969/jmsj/05230609.  Google Scholar [25] D. Zha, Some remarks on quasilinear wave equations with null condition in 3-D, Math. Methods Appl. Sci., 39 (2016), 4484-4495.  doi: 10.1002/mma.3876.  Google Scholar
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