Morawetz-Strichartz estimates for spherically symmetric solutions to wave equations and applications to semilinear Cauchy problems

Abstract

We prove some space-time estimates with homogeneous weight functions for the wave equation with radially symmetric data in order to explain a connection between the Morawetz-type space-time estimate and the Strichartz-type space-time estimate. As an application of such linear estimates, we give a new proof of global existence of small radial solutions to semilinear wave equations. Local existence of radial solutions is also studied for low-regularity data.