Uniform estimates for 2D quasilinear wave

Abstract

We consider two-dimensional quasilinear wave equations with standard null-type quadratic nonlinearities. In 2001 Alinhac proved that such systems possess global in time solutions for compactly supported initial data with sufficiently small Sobolev norm. The highest norm of the constructed solution grows polynomially in time. In this work we develop a new strategy and prove uniform boundedness of the highest order norm of the solution for all time.