Nonresonant bilinear forms for partially dissipative hyperbolic systems violating the Shizuta–Kawashima condition

Abstract

AbstractIn the context of hyperbolic systems of balance laws, the Shizuta–Kawashima coupling condition guarantees that all the variables of the system are dissipative even though the system is not totally dissipative. Hence it plays a crucial role in terms of sufficient conditions for the global in time existence of classical solutions. However, it is easy to find physically based models that do not satisfy this condition, especially in several space dimensions. In this paper, we consider two simple examples of partially dissipative hyperbolic systems violating the Shizuta–Kawashima condition (SK) in 3D, such that some eigendirections do not exhibit dissipation at all. We prove that if the source term is nonresonant (in a suitable sense) in the direction where dissipation does not play any role, then the formation of singularities is prevented, despite the lack of dissipation, and the smooth solutions exist globally in time. The main idea of the proof is to couple Green function estimates for weakly dissipative hyperbolic systems with the space–time resonance analysis for dispersive equations introduced by Germain, Masmoudi and Shatah. More precisely, the partially dissipative hyperbolic systems violating (SK) are endowed, in the nondissipative directions, with a special structure of the nonlinearity, the so-called nonresonant bilinear form for the wave equation (see Pusateri and Shatah, CPAM 2013).