On decay and blow-up of the solution for a viscoelastic wave equation with boundary damping and source terms (Q631683)

The authors study the problem \[ \begin{aligned} &u_{tt}-\Delta u+\int_0^tg(t-\tau)\Delta u(x,\tau)\,d\tau=0,\quad x\in \Omega\times (0,\infty),\\& u(x,t)=0,\;g>0,\quad (x,t)\in \Gamma_0\times [0,\infty),\\ &\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}-\int_0^tg(t-\tau)\frac{\partial u} {\partial \nu}(\tau)\,d\tau+|u_t|^{m-2}u_t=|u|^{p-2}u,\quad (x,t)\in \Gamma_1\times [0,\infty),\;m\geq 2,\;p>2,\\ &u(x,0)=u_0(x),\;u_t(x,0)=u_1(x),\quad x\in \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n,\;n\geq 1. \end{aligned} \] They give an exponential decay result without the relation between \(g'(t)\) and \(g(t)\) for the linear damping case provided that \(\|g\|_{L^1(0,\infty)}\) is small enough. Two blow-up results are established: one for solutions with nonpositive initial energy for both the linear and nonlinear damping cases, the other for solutions with arbitrarily positive initial energy for the linear damping case.