A note on \(L^p - L^q\) estimates for semilinear critical dissipative Klein-Gordon equations (Q2225490)

In the present paper the authors study the following Cauchy problem for a semilinear wave equation with scale-invariant mass and dissipation and with a power nonlinearity: \[ u_{tt} - \Delta u + \frac{\mu}{1+t} u_t + \frac{\nu^2}{(1+t)^2}u =|u|^p,\;\; u(0,x)=u_0(x), \;\; u_t(0,x)=u_1(x). \] The parameters \(\mu\) and \(\nu\) are supposed to be nonnegative. The authors are interested in the Klein-Gordon type case, this means, that the mass term dominates the dissipation term. To be more precise, they assume the condition \(\delta:=(\mu-1)^2 - 4 \nu^2 <0\). The main goal of the authors is to prove the global (in time) existence of small data energy solutions for an admissible set of exponents \(p\). On the one hand the authors assume additional regularity of the data in form of the condition \((u_0,u_1) \in W^{1,\frac{p+1}{p}} \times L^{\frac{p+1}{p}}\). On the other hand, the admissible set of exponents is described by the condition \[ \max \{p_0(n,\mu);p_1(n,\mu)\} < p \leq 1+\frac{2}{n-1} \;\; \text{for} \;\; n \geq 2 \;\; (< \infty\;\;\text{for}\;\;n=1). \] Here \(p_0(n,\mu)\) and \(p_1(n,\mu)\) are Strauss type exponents. Some decay estimates of the solution or its energy complete the main result. The proof bases on decay estimates of energy solutions to a family of parameter-dependent Cauchy problems for the corresponding linear equation with vanishing right-hand side, Duhamel's principle, Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality and a contraction argument. It seems to be a big challenge to verify the blow-up part for \(1<p \leq \max \{p_0(n,\mu);p_1(n,\mu)\}\).