2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 34E20, 35L80, 35L15.In this paper we study an ODE in the complex plane. This is a key step in the search of new necessary conditions for the well posedness of the Cauchy Problem for hyperbolic operators with double characteristics.

I will start with a short review of the classical restriction theorem for the sphere and Strichartz estimates for the wave equation. I then plan to give a detailed presentation of their recent generalizations in the form of “bilinear estimates”. In addition to the $L^2$ theory, which is now quite well developed, I plan to discuss a more general point of view concerning the $L^p$ theory. By investigating simple examples I will derive necessary conditions for such estimates to be true. I also plan to discuss...

We prove that the 3D cubic defocusing semi-linear wave equation is globally well-posed for data in the Sobolev space Hs where s > 3/4. This result was obtained in [11] following Bourgain's method ([3]). We present here a different and somewhat simpler argument, inspired by previous work on the Navier-Stokes equations ([4, 7]).

Viene dimostrata l'esistenza di soluzioni del problema di Darboux per l'equazione iperbolica $z_{xy}^{\mathrm{\prime \prime }}=f(x,y,z,Z_x^{\prime },z_y)$ sul planiquarto $x\ge 0$, $y\ge 0$. Qui, $f$ è una funzione continua, con valori in uno spazio Banach che soddisfano alcune condizioni di regolarità espresse in termini della misura di non-compattezza $\alpha$.

We extend a result of the second author [27, Theorem 1.1] to dimensions $d\ge 3$ which relates the size of $L^p$-norms of eigenfunctions for $2<p<2(d+1)/d-1$ to the amount of $L^2$-mass in shrinking tubes about unit-length geodesics. The proof uses bilinear oscillatory integral estimates of Lee [22] and a variable coefficient variant of an "$ϵ$ removal lemma" of Tao and Vargas [35]. We also use Hörmander’s [20] $L^2$ oscillatory integral theorem and the Cartan–Hadamard theorem to show that, under the assumption of nonpositive curvature,...

We extend the results of a work by L. Hörmander [9] concerning the resolution of the characteristic Cauchy problem for second order wave equations with regular first order potentials. The geometrical background of this work was a spatially compact spacetime with smooth metric. The initial data surface was spacelike or null at each point and merely Lipschitz. We lower the regularity hypotheses on the metric and potential and obtain similar results. The Cauchy problem for a spacelike initial data...

In this paper we consider the existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions of the following problem: $$u_{tt}{(t,x)-(\alpha +\beta \parallel \nabla u(t,x)\parallel }_2^2+{\beta \parallel \nabla v(t,x)\parallel }_2^2)\Delta u(t,x)+\delta |u_t{(t,x)|}^{p-1}{u}_t(t,x)={\mu \left|u(t,x)\right|}^{q-1}u(t,x),x\in \Omega ,t\ge 0,v_{tt}{(t,x)-(\alpha +\beta \parallel \nabla u(t,x)\parallel }_2^2+{\beta \parallel \nabla v(t,x)\parallel }_2^2)\Delta v(t,x)+\delta |v_t{(t,x)|}^{p-1}{v}_t(t,x)={\mu \left|v(t,x)\right|}^{q-1}v(t,x),x\in \Omega ,t\ge 0,u(0,x)=u_0\left(x\right),u_t(0,x)=u_1\left(x\right),x\in \Omega ,v(0,x)=v_0\left(x\right),v_t(0,x)=v_1\left(x\right),x\in \Omega ,u{{|}_{{}_{\partial \Omega }}=v|}_{{}_{\partial \Omega }}=0$$ where $q>1$, $p\ge 1$, $\delta >0$, $\alpha >0$, $\beta \ge 0$, $\mu \in ℝ$ and $\Delta$ is the Laplacian in ${ℝ}^N$.

We study the question of the existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence on parameters of the Carathéodory solutions to the Cauchy problem for linear partial functional-differential equations of hyperbolic type. A theorem on the Fredholm alternative is also proved. The results obtained are new even in the case of equations without argument deviations, because we do not suppose absolute continuity of the function the Cauchy problem is prescribed on, which is rather usual assumption in the existing...