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On Classical Global Solutions of Nonlinear Wave Equations with Large Data
October 1, 2019
This article studies the Cauchy problem for systems of semi-linear wave equations on R3+1 with nonlinear terms satisfying the null conditions. We construct future global-in-time classical solutions with arbitrarily large initial energy. The choice of the large Cauchy initial data is inspired by Christodoulou's characteristic initial data in his work [2] on formation of black holes. The main innovation of the current work is that we discovered a relaxed energy ansatz which allows us to prove decay-in-time-estimate. Therefore, the new estimates can also be applied in studying the Cauchy problem for Einstein equations.
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research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:000504073800001
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Publication date
2019-10-01
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Volume
2019
Issue
19
Start page
5859
End page
5913
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Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
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January 9, 2020
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