Dispersive Cases
It is well known that dispersive phenomena play a significant role in the study of partial differential equations. Historically, the use of dispersive effects appeared in the study of the wave equation in the whole space Rd with the proof of the so-called Strichartz estimates. The idea is that even though the wave equation is time reversible and preserves the energy, it induces a time decay in Lp norms, of course for exponents p greater than 2. In particular, the energy of the waves over a bounded subdomain vanishes as time goes to infinity. These decay properties also yield smoothing effects, which have been the beginning of a long series of works in which the aforementioned smoothing is used in the analysis of nonlinear wave equations to improve the classical well-posedness results. Similar developments have been applied to the non-linear Schrödinger equations. Let us give a flavor of the proof of dispersion estimates in the case of simple systems.