Improved multilinear estimates and global regularity for general nonlinear wave equations in $(1+3)$ dimensions

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the investigation of long-time behaviour of solutions to wave equations with quadratic nonlinearity and cubic Dirac equations with Hartree-type nonlinearity. We consider the nonlinearity here with enough simplicity so that we can treat it as a toy model and simultaneously with enough generality so that we can apply our result to wave and Dirac equations with various nonlinearities. The challenging point is that nonlinearity possesses singularity near the origin. Our strategy is to relax such a singularity by exploiting fully an angular momentum operator. In this manner we establish scattering for the critical Sobolev data.