Scattering for critical wave equations with variable coefficients

Abstract

We prove that solutions to the quintic semilinear wave equation with variable coefficients in ${\mathbb{R}}^{1+3}$ scatter to a solution to the corresponding linear wave equation. The coefficients are small and decay as $|x|\to \infty$, but are allowed to be time dependent. The proof uses local energy decay estimates to establish the decay of the $L^6$ norm of the solution as $t\to \infty$.

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