Small data global existence for the semilinear wave equation with space-time dependent damping (Q432335)

In this article is considered the Cauchy problem \[ \begin{cases} u_{tt}-\Delta u+a(x) b(t)u_t=f(u),\quad (t, x)\in (0, \infty)\times \mathbb R^n,\\ u(0, x)=u_0(x), u_t(0, x)=u_1(x),\quad x\in \mathbb R^n, \end{cases} \tag{1} \] where \(u_0\in H^1(\mathbb R^n)\), \(u_1\in L^2(\mathbb R^n)\), \(a(x)=a_0(1+|x|^2)^{-{{\alpha}\over 2}}\), \(b(t)=(1+t)^{-\beta}\), \(a_0>0\), \(\alpha, \beta\geq 0\), \(\alpha+\beta<1\), the nonlinear term \(f(u)\) is given by \(f(u)=\pm |u|^p\) or \(f(u)=|u|^{p-1}u\). In the case when \(p>1+{2\over {n-\alpha}}\) and \(\int_{\mathbb {R}^n} e^{2\psi(0, x)}\Bigl(u_1^2+|\nabla u_0|^2+|u_0|^2\Bigr)dx\) is enough small for \[ \psi(t, x)={{(1+\beta)a_0}\over {(2-\alpha)^2(2+\delta)}}{{(1+|x|^2)^{{2-\alpha}\over 2}}\over {(1+t)^{\beta+1}}}, \] \(\delta>0\) is sufficiently small, the author proves that the problem \((1)\) has unique solution \(u\in {\mathcal C}([0, \infty), H^1(\mathbb R^n))\cap {\mathcal C}^1([0, \infty), L^2(\mathbb R^n))\) for which \[ \begin{aligned} \int_{\mathbb R^n}e^{2\psi(t, x)}|u(t, x)|^2dx&\leq C_{\delta}(1+t)^{-(1+\beta){{n-2\alpha}\over {2-\alpha}}+\epsilon},\\ \int_{\mathbb R^n}e^{2\psi(t, x)}\Bigl(|u_t(t, x)|^2+|\nabla u(t, x)|^2\Bigr) dx&\leq C_{\delta}(1+t)^{-(1+\beta)\Bigl({{n-\alpha}\over {2-\alpha}}+1\Bigr)+\epsilon},\\ \int_{\Omega_{\rho}(t)}\Bigl(u_t^2+|\nabla u|^2+u^2\Bigr)dx&\leq C_{\delta, \rho, \mu}(1+t)^{-{{(1+\beta)(n-2\alpha)}\over {2-\alpha}}+\epsilon}e^{-(2A-\mu)(1+t)^{\rho}},\end{aligned} \] where \[ \epsilon={{3(1+\beta)(n-\alpha)}\over {2(2-\alpha)(2+\delta)}}\delta, \] \[ 0<\mu<2{{(1+\beta)a_0}\over {(2-\alpha)^2(2+\delta)}}, \] \(0<\rho<1-\alpha-\beta, \Omega_{\rho}(t)=\{x\in \mathbb R^n:(1+|x|^2)^{{2-\alpha}\over 2}\geq (1+t)^{1+\beta+\rho}\}\), \(A={{(1+\beta)a_0}\over {(2-\alpha)^2(2+\delta)}}\).