Quadratic forms for the Liouville equation with applications to Kirchhoff equation

  • Renato Manfrin

    Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy

Abstract

We introduce a set of quadratic forms for the solutions of the Liouville equation . From these forms we derive estimates for the wave equation and then prove the global solvability for the Kirchhoff equation in suitable classes of not necessarily smooth or small initial data.

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Renato Manfrin, Quadratic forms for the Liouville equation with applications to Kirchhoff equation. Port. Math. 65 (2008), no. 4, pp. 447–484

DOI 10.4171/PM/1821