Propagation of singularities for the wave equation on manifolds with corners

Vasy, András

Séminaire Équations aux dérivées partielles (Polytechnique) dit aussi "Séminaire Goulaouic-Schwartz" (2004-2005), Exposé no. 20, 16 p.

In this talk we describe the propagation of ${𝒞}^{\infty }$ and Sobolev singularities for the wave equation on ${𝒞}^{\infty }$ manifolds with corners $M$ equipped with a Riemannian metric $g$. That is, for $X=M\times {ℝ}_t$, $P=D_t^2-{\Delta }_M$, and $u\in H_{\text{loc}}^1\left(X\right)$ solving $Pu=0$ with homogeneous Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, we show that ${WF}_{\text{b}}\left(u\right)$ is a union of maximally extended generalized broken bicharacteristics. This result is a ${𝒞}^{\infty }$ counterpart of Lebeau’s results for the propagation of analytic singularities on real analytic manifolds with appropriately stratified boundary, [7]. Our methods rely on b-microlocal positive commutator estimates, thus providing a new proof for the propagation of singularities at hyperbolic points even if $M$ has a smooth boundary (and no corners).

These notes are a summary of [17], where the detailed proofs appear.

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