Wave estimates

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Solutions to the linear wave equation and its perturbations are either estimated in mixed space-time norms L^q_t L^r_x, or in X^{s,b}_{} spaces, defined by

\| u \|_{X^{s,b}} = \| <\xi>^s <|\xi| - |\tau|>^b \hat{u} ( \tau, \xi )\|_2

Linear space-time estimates are known as Strichartz estimates. They are especially useful for the semilinear NLW without derivatives, and also have applications to other non-linearities, although the results obtained are often non-optimal (Strichartz estimates do not exploit any null structure of the equation). The X^{s,b}_{} spaces are used primarily for [[bilinear wave estimates|bilinear estimates], although more recently multilinear estimates have begun to appear. These spaces first appear in one-dimension in RaRe1982 and in higher dimensions in Be1983 in the context of propagation of singularities; they were used implicitly for LWP in KlMa1993, while the Schrodinger and KdV analogues were developed in Bo1993, Bo1993b.

Specific wave estimates