2011/06/22 by Matthew P. Masarik, Masarik, Matthew P.
Mathematics · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Soft tissue tumor case studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1106.4466
openalex publication_date 2011/06/22 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider the Cauchy problem with smooth and compactly supported initial data for the wave equation in a general class of spherically symmetric geometries which are globally smooth and asymptotically flat. Under certain mild conditions on the far-field decay, we show that there is a unique globally smooth solution which is compactly supported for all times and \emphdecays in L∞loc as t tends to infinity. Because particlelike geometries are singularity free, they impose additional difficulties at the origin. Thus this study requires ideas and techniques not present in the study of wave equations in black hole geometries. We obtain as a corollary that solutions to the wave equation in the geometry of particle-like solutions of the SU(2) Einstein/Yang-Mills equations decay as t→ ∞.