Almost optimal local well-posedness of the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations in 1+4 dimensions

Sigmund Selberg

Published 2001-01-13, updated 2002-02-20Version 2

We prove that the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations on $\R^{1+4}$ relative to the Coulomb gauge are locally well-posed for initial data in $H^{1+\epsilon}$ for all $\epsilon > 0$. This builds on previous work by Klainerman and Machedon who proved the corresponding result for a model problem derived from the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon system by ignoring the elliptic features of the system, as well as cubic terms.