Global existence for energy critical waves in 3-d domains : Neumann boundary conditions

Abstract

We prove that the defocusing quintic wave equation, with Neumann boundary conditions, is globally wellposed on $H_N^1(\Omega )\times L^2(\Omega )$ for any smooth (compact) domain $\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^3$. The proof relies on one hand on $L^p$ estimates for the spectral projector by Smith and Sogge, and on the other hand on a precise analysis of the boundary value problem, which turns out to be much more delicate than in the case of Dirichlet boundary conditions.

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