Peeling-off behavior of wave equation in the Vaidya spacetime

Abstract

We study the peeling for the wave equation on the Vaidya spacetime following the approach developed by Mason and Nicolas in Mason–Nicolas 2009. The idea is to encode the regularity at null infinity of the rescaled field, characterized by Sobolev-type norms, in terms of corresponding function spaces of initial data. All function spaces are obtained from energy fluxes associated with an observer constructed from the Morawetz vector field on Minkowski spacetime. We combine conformal techniques and energy estimates to obtain the optimal classes of initial data ensuring a given regularity of the rescaled field. The classes of data are equivalent to those obtained on Minkowski and Schwarzschild spacetimes in that they impose the same decay at infinity and regularity.