Final State Problem for the Dirac-Klein-Gordon Equations in Two Space Dimensions
Abstract
We study the fi nal state problem for the Dirac-Klein-Gordon equations (DKG) in two space dimensions. We prove that if the nonresonance mass condition is satisfi ed, then the wave operator for DKG is well defi ned from a neighborhood at the origin in lower order weighted Sobolev space to some Sobolev space.
1. Introduction
Our aim in the present paper is to show existence of the wave operator for the DKG system (DKG) under the nonresonance mass condition m ≠ 2M in two space dimensions.
First, we recall some well-posedness results for (DKG). Many local well-posedness results in low-order Sobolev spaces have been obtained for these ten years (for recent information see, e.g., [1, 2] and references therein). Global well-posedness results in 2d case were also obtained (see, e.g., [3]). Moreover, very recently, unconditional uniqueness in 2d case was discussed in [4, 5]. On the other hand, there are few results about scattering for (DKG) in 2d case.
If we want to obtain a priori estimates to the local solution for the DKG system, we can use estimates to solutions for the above KG one. Moreover, in the present two-dimensional case, the initial value problem for nonlinear KG systems including (4) was studied in [8] (see also [9]). In [8], Sunagawa proved existence of a unique global asymptotically free solution under the nonresonance mass conditions, if the initial data are sufficiently small, smooth and decay fast at infinity. However, asymptotic behavior of solutions for DKG is not clear because (DKG) is not equivalent to (4) in general. In this paper, we will consider the DKG system itself without reducing it into (4) such as in [10]. Though the initial value problem for DKG was treated in [11], the final value problem which will be discussed in this paper is more delicate because of the derivative loss difficulties.
By this combination, we will find a suitable second approximate solution to ψ (given by (42)). We note that the implicit null structure for (DKG) was discovered in [12], and it was used to prove local well-posedness in low regular setting in [2]. On the other hand, in this paper, by explicit null structure, wave operator for (DKG) will be constructed.
2. Several Notations and Main Results
where , 〈∇〉 = (1−Δ)1/2. We also write for simplicity , , and , and so we usually omit the index 0 and p = 2 if it does not cause a confusion.
Theorem 1. Let m, M > 0, m ≠ 2M, 4 < q ≤ ∞ and . If the norm is sufficiently small, then there exist a positive constant T > 0 and a unique solution
is true for all t ≥ T, where 1/2 < μ < 1 − 2/q and (ψ0, ϕ0) is given by (7).
By Theorem 1, we can get existence of the wave operator for (DKG) as follows.
Corollary 2. Let m, M > 0, m ≠ 2M, and 4 ≤ q < ∞. Then the wave operator 𝒲+ for (DKG) is well defined from a neighborhood at the origin in the space to the space .
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 3, we state some basic estimates for free solutions of the DKG system and we introduce “null forms” and state their properties. In Section 4, we decompose two harmful terms by the algebraic normal form transformation and we find a second approximation for ψ through the decomposition of the Klein-Gordon operator by the Dirac one. In Section 5, following paper [10], we will also change the transformed DKG system into another form in order to apply the Strichartz type estimates to the Dirac part. In Section 6, we will prove Theorem 1 by an iteration scheme based on paper [13].
3. Elementary Estimates and Null Forms
Through the paper, we write A≃B if there exist some positive constants C1, C2 > 0 such that C1B ≤ A ≤ C2B, and we also write A≲B if there exists a positive constant C > 0 such that A ≤ CB.
Now, we state Lp − Lq time decay estimates through the free evolution groups 𝒰±,m(t) obtained in paper [14].
Lemma 3. Let m ≠ 0 and 2 ≤ p ≤ ∞. Then the estimate
is true for any t > 0, where q is a conjugate exponent of p: 1/p + 1/q = 1.
By the lemma, we can easily get Lp − Lq time decay estimates to free solutions for the DKG system.
Corollary 4. Under the same assumption of Lemma 3 and M > 0, the following estimates
Remark 5. Let κ ∈ ℝ, M, m ≠ 0, and 2 ≤ p < ∞. Then the following estimates
hold for any t > 0.
Lemma 6. Let 2 ≤ q < ∞ and 2/r = 1 − (2/q). Then for any time interval I, the following estimates are true:
where r′ = r/(r − 1), q′ = q/(q − 1) and γ = 1 − (2/q).
Next, we introduce the Leibniz rule for fractional derivatives.
Lemma 7. Let κ > 0, 1 < p, q1, q2 < ∞, 1 < r1, r2 ≤ ∞, and 1/p = 1/q1 + 1/r1 = 1/q2 + 1/r2. Then the following estimate holds:
For the proof of (25) see, for example, [16].
for k = 1,2, where [A, B] ≡ AB − BA.
Lemma 8. Let j, k = 1,2. Then, for any smooth function f, g, the identities
4. Decomposition of Critical Terms
(see Corollary 4), the L2-norm of these terms is not integrable with respect to time t over [1, ∞). Therefore, it can not be expected that usual perturbation technique is applicable to (29). To overcome this lack of time decay property, we will decompose them into an image of a Klein-Gordon operator and a remainder term following paper [8], based on papers [19–21].
Corollary 10. Let m, M > 0, m ≠ 2M, and (ψ0, ϕ0) be a free solution for the Dirac-Klein-Gordon equations. Then the quadratic terms ϕ0βψ0, can be expressed as
Proof. We consider the Dirac part of (38). Multiplying by 𝒟− both hand sides of 𝒟+ψ0 = 0, we get
are the second approximate solution to (ψ, ϕ), where we have used the identities αjβ + βαj = O, β2 = I and 𝒟+ψ0 = 0 to obtain the third equality in (42).
Lemma 11. Let m, M > 0 and m ≠ 2M. Then (ψ, ϕ) satisfies (DKG) if and only if the new variable (Ψ, Φ) defined by (41) is a solution of
and , ℛD and ℛK are defined by (35), (36), and (37), respectively.
This lemma enables us to treat the Dirac-Klein-Gordon equations (DKG) as well as the reduced KG system (4) in two space dimensions.
Proof. From (29), we see that (ψ, ϕ) is a solution of (DKG) if and only if the new variable satisfies the following DKG equations:
5. Reduction to Some First Order System
for l ≥ 0, where (ψ0, ϕ0) is given by (7). It suffices to prove that the sequence is a Cauchy one in the Banach space for some T > 0.
for l ≥ 0 (, , and F and G are defined by (42)-(43) and (46), resp.).
Remark 13. By properties (1) of the Dirac matrices, we can transform into another form without any derivatives of or the free solution ψ0 (see (78)-(79), precisely). This fact enables us to use the Strichartz estimates for (60).
where .
Remark 14. The identity holds, which enables us to reconstruct a solution (Ψ, Φ) for (45) from .
into the nonlinearities , , we can express (63) by the new variable only without .
Lemma 15. Let . The function (ψl, ϕl) defined by (51) satisfies (52)-(53) for any l ≥ 0 if and only if the new function vl satisfies (68) and
The proof of the lemma will be given in Appendix.
6. Proof of Theorem 1
hold; the nonlinearity 𝒩(vl) can be expressed in terms of the space derivatives of vl (so excluding the time derivatives).
In order to obtain the theorem, we will show that the sequence {vl} is a Cauchy one in a closed ball XT,A for appropriate T and ρ, where .
Proof. We will prove that vl ∈ XT,A for any l ≥ 0 by induction. In the case of l = 0, it is easy to see that v0 ∈ XT,A for some T and ρ. We omit the details. For l ≥ 1, we assume that vk ∈ XT,A for 0 ≤ k ≤ l. We will show that vl+1 ∈ XT,A for some T and ρ.
First, by the identities 𝒟+ψ0 = 0 and 𝒟+ψl = λϕl−1βψl−1 for l ≥ 1, we get, for l ≥ 1,
Moreover, we remember that is expressed as (65).
Now, we will estimate . By the Hölder inequality, we have
for all t ≥ T ≥ 1 since q > 4.
Next, we will estimate . By the Leibniz formula (25) with κ = 1/2, p = 4/3, q1 = q2 = 2, and r1 = r2 = 4 and the Hölder inequality, we obtain
Acknowledgment
The author would like to express deep gratitude to an anonymous referee for the useful suggestions and comments.
Appendix
In this section, we give a proof of Lemma 15. First, we prepare the following.
Lemma 16 (see [10].)Let κ ∈ ℝ and let ψ+ = ψ+(x) be a ℂ2-valued given function. Then, for any C2-valued function ψ = ψ(t, x), the equivalency
holds for all t ∈ ℝ.
For the proof of the lemma, see [10].
By the lemma and a decay property of given by (42), we also have the following.
Corollary 17. Let . The final state condition (8) with X = H1/2 holds if and only if the identity
is valid, where Ψ is defined by (41).
Proof. By Lemma 16, we see that (8) with X = H1/2 is equivalent to
for all t > 0, which completes the proof of the corollary.
Next we will prove Lemma 15.
Proof of Lemma 15. First we prove the Dirac part. By Corollary 17, we see that (52) is equivalent to
from which (A.14) follows.
Next, we consider the KG part. By the identity