Inhomogeneous Strichartz estimates in some critical cases

Abstract

Strong-type inhomogeneous Strichartz estimates are shown to be false for the wave equation outside the so-called acceptable region. On a critical line where the acceptability condition marginally fails, we prove substitute estimates with a weak-type norm in the temporal variable. We achieve this by establishing such weak-type inhomogeneous Strichartz estimates in an abstract setting. The application to the wave equation rests on a slightly stronger form of the standard dispersive estimate in terms of certain Besov spaces.