Local Energy Decay in Even Dimensions for the Wave Equation with a Time-Periodic Non-Trapping Metric and Applications to Strichartz Estimates

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 35B40, 35L15.

We obtain local energy decay as well as global Strichartz estimates for the solutions u of the wave equation ∂t2 u-divx(a(t,x)∇xu) = 0, t ∈ R, x ∈ Rn, with time-periodic non-trapping metric a(t,x) equal to 1 outside a compact set with respect to x. We suppose that the cut-off resolvent Rχ(θ) = χ(U(T, 0)− e−iθ)−1χ, where U(T, 0) is the monodromy operator and T the period of a(t,x), admits an holomorphic continuation to {θ ∈ C : Im(θ) ≥ 0}, for n ≥ 3, odd, and to {θ ∈ C : Im(θ) ≥ 0, θ ≠ 2kπ − iμ, k ∈ Z, μ ≥ 0} for n ≥ 4, even, and for n ≥ 4 even Rχ(θ) is bounded in a neighborhood of θ = 0.