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Publications and source records attributed to Jacob Sterbenz.
We develop a commuting vector field method for a general class of radiating spacetimes. The metrics considered are certain long range perturbations of Minkowski space including those constructed from global stability problems in general relativity. Our method provides sharp peeling estimates for solutions to both linear and nonlinear (null form) scalar fields.
We consider local energy decay estimates for solutions to scalar wave equations on nontrapping asymptotically flat space-times. Our goals are two-fold. First we consider the stationary case, where we can provide a full spectral characterization of local energy decay bounds; this characterization simplifies in the stationary symmetric case. Then we consider the almost stationary, almost symmetric case. There we establish two main results: The first is a "two point" local energy decay estimate which is valid for a general class of (non-symmetric) almost stationary wave equations which satisfy a certain nonresonance property at zero frequency. The second result, which also requires the almost symmetry condition, is to establish an exponential trichotomy in the energy space via finite dimensional time dependent stable and unstable sub-spaces, with an infinite dimensional complement on which solutions disperse via the usual local energy decay estimate.
We study the 1D Klein-Gordon equation with variable coefficient nonlinearity. This problem exhibits an interesting resonant interaction between the spatial frequencies of the nonlinear coefficients and the temporal oscillations of the solutions. In the case when only the cubic coefficients are variable we prove dispersive decay and smoothness of the solution in weighted spaces with the help of quadratic and cubic normal-forms transformations. In the case of cubic interactions these normal forms appear to be novel.
We prove local energy decay estimates for solutions to the inhomogeneous Maxwell system on a generic class of spherically symmetric black holes.
We prove that the critical Maxwell-Klein Gordon equation on R4+1 is globally well-posed for smooth initial data which are small in the energy. This reduces the problem of global regularity for large, smooth initial data to precluding concentration of energy.
In this article we prove a Sacks-Uhlenbeck/Struwe type global regularity result for wave-maps $Φ:\mathbb{R}^{2+1}\to\mathcal{M}$ into general compact target manifolds $\mathcal{M}$.
In this article we consider large data Wave-Maps from $\mathbb{R}^{2+1}$ into a compact Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal{M},g)$, and we prove that regularity and dispersive bounds persist as long as a certain type of bulk (non-dispersive) concentration is absent. In a companion article we use these results in order to establish a full regularity theory for large data Wave-Maps.
We study the phenomena of energy concentration for the critical O(3) sigma model, also known as the wave map flow from R^{2+1} Minkowski space into the sphere S^2. We establish rigorously and constructively existence of a set of smooth initial data resulting in a dynamic finite time formation of singularities. The construction and analysis is done in the context of the k-equivariant symmetry reduction, and we restrict to maps with homotopy class k>3. The concentration mechanism we uncover is essentially due to a resonant self-focusing (shrinking) of a corresponding harmonic map. We show that the phenomenon is generic (e.g. in certain Sobolev spaces) and persists under small perturbations of initial data, while the resulting blowup is bounded by a log-modified self-similar asymptotic.
We prove that the charge-scalar field (also known as the massless Maxwell-Klein-Gordon) equations are globally stable on (3+1) dimensional Minkowski space for small initial data in certain gauge covariant weighted Sobolev spaces. These spaces can be chosen as to be almost scale invariant with respect to the homogeneity of the equations. This result is valid for initial data with non-zero charge that is also non-stationary at space-like infinity. The method of proof is a tensor-geometric approach which is based on a certain family of weighted bilinear L2 space-time estimates.
We provide a uniform decay estimate of Morawetz type for the local energy of general solutions to the inhomogeneous wave equation on a Schwarzchild background. This estimate is both uniform in space and time, so in particular it implies a uniform bound on the sup norm of solutions which can be given in terms of certain inverse powers of the radial and advanced/retarded time coordinate variables. As a model application, we show these estimates give a very simple proof small amplitude scattering for nonlinear scalar fields with higher than cubic interactions.
We prove that smallness of the critical Sobolev norm implies regularity for the Yang-Mills equations on (6+1) and higher dimensional Minkowski space.
We prove here essentially sharp linear and bilinear Strichartz type estimates for the wave equations on Minkowski space, where we assume the initial data possesses additional regularity with respect to fractional powers of the usual angular momentum operators. In this setting, the range of (q,r) exponents vastly improves over what is available for the wave equations based on translation invariant derivatives of the initial data and the dispersive inequality. Two proofs of this result are given.
We continue here with previous investigations on the global behavior of general type non-linear wave equations for a class of small, scale-invariant initial data. The method is based on the use of a new set of Strichartz estimates for the linear wave equation which incorporates extra weighted smoothness assumptions with respect to the angular variable, along with the construction of appropriate micro-local function spaces which take into account this type of additional regularity.
We solve here the so called division problem for wave equations with generic quadratic non-linearities in high dimensions. Specifically, we show that semilinear wave equations which can be written as systems involving quadratic derivative non-linearities are globally well posed in (6+1) and higher dimensions for all regularities greater than the scaling. This paper is the first in a series of works where we discuss the global regularity properties of general non-linear wave equations for all spatial dimensions greater than or equal to 4.