Concerning the Strauss conjecture and almost global existence for nonlinear Dirichlet-wave equations in 4-dimensions

Abstract

We show the obstacle version of the Strauss conjecture holds when the spatial dimension is equal to 4. We also show that an almost global existence theorem of H\"ormander for (4+1)-dimensional Minkowski space holds in the obstacle setting. We use weighed space-time variants of the energy inequality and a variant of the classical Hardy inequality.