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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Smoothing Effect in Quasilinear Wave Equations
Authors : Hajer Bahouri, Jean-Yves Chemin, Raphaël Danchin
Published in: Fourier Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Chapter 9 is devoted to the study of a class of quasilinear wave equations which can be seen as a toy model for the Einstein equations. First, by taking advantage of energy methods in the spirit of those of Chapter 4, we establish local well-posedness for “smooth” initial data (i.e., for data in Sobolev spaces embedded in the set of Lipschitz functions). Next, we weaken our regularity assumptions by taking advantage of the dispersive nature of the wave equation. The key to that improvement is a quasilinear Strichartz estimate and a refinement of the paradifferential calculus. To prove the quasilinear Strichartz estimate, we use a microlocal decomposition of the time interval (i.e., a decomposition in some interval, the length of which depends on the size of the frequency) and geometrical optics.