This talk describes joint work with Chris Sogge and Markus Keel, in which we establish a global existence theorem for null-type quasilinear wave equations in three space dimensions, where we impose Dirichlet conditions on a smooth, compact star-shaped obstacle . The key tool, following Christodoulou [1], is to use the Penrose compactification of Minkowski space. In the case under consideration, this reduces matters to a local existence theorem for a singular obstacle problem. Full details will appear in our joint paper of the same title.
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Smith, Hart F. Global existence for a quasilinear wave equation outside of star-shaped domains. Journées équations aux dérivées partielles (2001), article no. 12, 6 p. doi : 10.5802/jedp.596. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.5802/jedp.596/
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