Local well-posedness of Yang-Mills equations in Lorenz gauge below the energy norm

Achenef Tesfahun

Published 2014-08-22Version 1

We prove that the Yang-Mills equations in the Lorenz gauge (YM-LG) is locally well-posed for data below the energy norm, in particular, we can take data for the gauge potential $A$ and the associated curvature $F$ in $H^s\times H^{s-1}$ and $H^r\times H^{r-1}$ for $s=(\frac67+,-\frac1{14} +)$, respectively. This extends a recent by Selberg and the present author on the local well-posedness of YM-LG for finite energy data (specifically, for $(s, r)=(1-, 0)$). We also prove unconditional uniqueness of the energy class solution, that is, uniqueness in the classical space $C([-T, T]; X_0)$, where $X_0$ is the energy data space. The key ingredient in the proof is the fact that most bilinear terms in YM-LG contain null structure some of which uncovered in the present paper.