Escape Metrics and its Applications

TL;DR

This paper introduces escape metrics in al R^n, proves geodesic escape properties, and applies these to derive dispersive estimates for wave equations, extending beyond Euclidean metrics.

Contribution

It defines and studies escape metrics in al R^n, establishing geodesic escape behavior and deriving dispersive estimates for wave equations on exterior domains.

Findings

Geodesics escape to infinity under escape metrics.

Counterexample shows non-escape metrics may have bounded geodesics.

Dispersive estimates with uniform decay rates for wave equations.

Abstract

Geodesics escape is widely used to study the scattering of hyperbolic equations. However, there are few progresses except in a simply connected complete Riemannian manifold with nonpositive curvature. We propose a kind of complete Riemannian metrics in $\mathbb{R}^n$, which is called as escape metrics. We expose the relationship between escape metrics and geodesics escape in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Under the escape metric $g$, we prove that each geodesic of $(\mathbb{R}^n,g)$ escapes, that is, $\lim_{t\rightarrow +\infty} |\gamma (t)|=+\infty$ for any $x\in \mathbb{R}^n$ and any unit-speed geodesic $\gamma (t)$ starting at $x$. We also obtain the geodesics escape velocity and give the counterexample that if escape metrics are not satisfied, then there exists an unit-speed geodesic $\gamma (t)$ such that $\overline{\lim}_{t\rightarrow +\infty} |\gamma (t)|<+\infty$. In addition, we establish Morawetz multipliers in Riemannian geometry to derive dispersive estimates for the wave equation on an exterior domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with an escape metric. More concretely, for radial solutions, the uniform decay rate of the local energy is independent of the parity of the dimension $n$. For general solutions, we prove the space-time estimation of the energy and uniform decay rate $t^{-1}$ of the local energy. It is worth pointing out that different from the assumption of an Euclidean metric at infinity in the existing studies, escape metrics are more general Riemannian metrics.