Klainerman's critical well-posedness conjecture for basic field theories

The systems under consideration are basic field theories with critical well-posedness exponent scs_c, meaning that the dotHsc×dotHsc1dot H^{s_c} \times dot H^{s_c-1} norm of the initial data is invariant under the natural scaling. Klainerman's critical well-posedness conjecture. (1) For all basic field theories, the initial value problem is locally well posed for initial data in Hs×Hs1H^s \times H^{s-1} with s>scs>s_c. (2) The basic field theories are weakly globally well posed for all initial data with small Hsc×Hsc1H^{s_c} \times H^{s_c-1} norm. (3) The basic field theories are ill posed for initial data in Hs×Hs1H^s \times H^{s-1} with s<scs<s_c. Here weak well-posedness allows the solutions to fail to depend smoothly or analytically on the data. This is presented as a formulation taken from Klainerman and concerns the expected sharp regularity thresholds for local, small-data global, and ill-posed regimes.

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Sergiu Klainerman and Sigmund Selberg, “Bilinear Estimates and Applications to Nonlinear Wave Equations”, arXiv:math/0101118 (2001).

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