New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 22 (2016) 209-227

  

Jonas Lührmann and Dana Mendelson

On the almost sure global well-posedness of energy sub-critical nonlinear wave equations on R3

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Published: February 27, 2016
Keywords: nonlinear wave equation; almost sure global well-posedness; random initial data
Subject: 35L05, 35R60, 35Q55

Abstract
We consider energy sub-critical defocusing nonlinear wave equations on R3 and establish the existence of unique global solutions almost surely with respect to a unit-scale randomization of the initial data on Euclidean space. In particular, we provide examples of initial data at super-critical regularities which lead to unique global solutions. The proof is based on probabilistic growth estimates for a new modified energy functional. This work improves upon the authors' previous results (Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 2014) by significantly lowering the regularity threshold and strengthening the notion of uniqueness.

Acknowledgements

The first author was supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant SNF 200020-159925. The second author was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation grant DMS-1362509.


Author information

Jonas Lührmann:
Departement Mathematik, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
jonas.luehrmann@math.ethz.ch

Dana Mendelson:
Department of Mathematics, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
dana@math.mit.edu