Global existence for energy critical waves in 3-D domains

Nicolas Burq, Gilles Lebeau, Fabrice Planchon

Published 2006-07-25Version 1

We prove that the defocusing quintic wave equation, with Dirichlet boundary conditions, is globally well posed on $H^1_0(\Omega) \times L^2(\Omega)$ for any smooth (compact) domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$. The main ingredient in the proof is an $L^5$ spectral projector estimate, obtained recently by Smith and Sogge, combined with a precise study of the boundary value problem.