Geometric scattering for nonlinear wave equations on the Schwarzschild metric

Abstract

In this paper, we establish a conformal scattering theory for defocusing semilinear wave equations on Schwarzschild spacetime. We combine the energy and pointwise decay results for solutions obtained in \cite{Yang} with a Sobolev embedding on spacelike hypersurfaces to derive two-sided energy estimates between the energy flux of solutions through the Cauchy initial hypersurface ${\Sigma }_0=\{t=0\}$ and that through the null conformal boundaries $\mathfrak{H}^+ \cup \scri^+$ (respectively, $\mathfrak{H}^- \cup \scri^-$). By combining these estimates with the well-posedness of the Cauchy and Goursat problems for nonlinear wave equations, we construct a bounded linear and locally Lipschitz scattering operator that maps past scattering data to future scattering data.

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