Mapping properties of generalized Fourier transforms and applications to Kirchhoff equations

Abstract

We prove the differentiability of generalized Fourier transforms associated with a self-adjoint and strictly elliptic perturbation A of the Laplacian with variable coefficients in an exterior domain, using results on the spectral differentiability of the resolvent of A. Moreover we show that differentiable functions with bounded support and vanishing near the origin are mapped by the generalized Fourier transform into polynomially weighted L 2-spaces. As an application of the generalized Fourier transform and exploiting the previous results, we deal with equations of Kirchhoff type. We will not only show the global (in t) existence and uniqueness of solutions for a class of small data, but also an assertion on its time asymptotic behavior. In addition, we obtain amplified results for Schrodinger operators $A = - \Delta + V$ .