The global smooth solutions of second order quasilinear hyperbolic equations with dissipative boundary conditions (Q1114863)

The paper deals with the following boundary value problem of the second order quasilinear hyperbolic equation with a dissipative boundary condition on a part of the boundary: \[ u_{tt}- \sum^{n}_{i,j=1}a_{ij}(Du)u_{x_ ix_ j}=0\quad in\quad (0,\infty)\times \Omega, \] \[ u|_{\Gamma_ 0}=0,\quad \sum^{n}_{i,j=1}a_{ij}(Du)n_ ju_{x_ i}+b(Du)u_ t|_{\Gamma_ 1}=0,\quad u|_{t=0}=\phi (x),\quad u_ t|_{t=0}=\psi (x)\quad in\quad \Omega, \] where \(\partial \Omega =\Gamma_ 0\cup \Gamma_ 1\), \(b(Du)\geq b_ 0>0\). Under some assumptions on the equation and domain, the author proves that there exists a global smooth solution for above problem with small data.