{"title":"Scattering and rigidity for nonlinear elastic waves","authors":"Dongbing Zha","doi":"10.1007/s00526-024-02736-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>For the Cauchy problem of nonlinear elastic wave equations of three-dimensional isotropic, homogeneous and hyperelastic materials satisfying the null condition, global existence of classical solutions with small initial data was proved in Agemi (Invent Math 142:225–250, 2000) and Sideris (Ann Math 151:849–874, 2000), independently. In this paper, we will consider the asymptotic behavior of global solutions. We first show that the global solution will scatter, i.e., it will converge to some solution of linear elastic wave equations as time tends to infinity, in the energy sense. We also prove the following rigidity result: if the scattering data vanish, then the global solution will also vanish identically. The variational structure of the system will play a key role in our argument.</p>","PeriodicalId":9478,"journal":{"name":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-024-02736-2","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
For the Cauchy problem of nonlinear elastic wave equations of three-dimensional isotropic, homogeneous and hyperelastic materials satisfying the null condition, global existence of classical solutions with small initial data was proved in Agemi (Invent Math 142:225–250, 2000) and Sideris (Ann Math 151:849–874, 2000), independently. In this paper, we will consider the asymptotic behavior of global solutions. We first show that the global solution will scatter, i.e., it will converge to some solution of linear elastic wave equations as time tends to infinity, in the energy sense. We also prove the following rigidity result: if the scattering data vanish, then the global solution will also vanish identically. The variational structure of the system will play a key role in our argument.
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Calculus of variations and partial differential equations are classical, very active, closely related areas of mathematics, with important ramifications in differential geometry and mathematical physics. In the last four decades this subject has enjoyed a flourishing development worldwide, which is still continuing and extending to broader perspectives.
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- Variational problems in differential and complex geometry
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- Dynamical systems, symplectic geometry, periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems
- Variational methods in mathematical physics, nonlinear elasticity, asymptotic variational problems, homogenization, capillarity phenomena, free boundary problems and phase transitions
- Monge-Ampère equations and other fully nonlinear partial differential equations related to problems in differential geometry, complex geometry, and physics.