\(L^p\)-\(L^q\) estimates for the damped wave equation and the critical exponent for the nonlinear problem with slowly decaying data (Q2415189)

In the present paper the authors study the classical damped wave equation and related semilinear models with power nonlinearity on the right-hand side. The authors generalize Matsumura type estimates for solutions of the Cauchy problem for classical damped wave equation to \(L^q-L^p\) decay estimates with derivative loss for \(1 \leq q \leq p <\infty\) with \(p \neq 1\). This is done by writing down the representation of weak solutions by Fourier multipliers. For the low frequency part the authors derive a pointwise estimate of the convolution kernel. For the high frequency part a well-known \(L^p-L^p\) estimate with derivative loss for weak solutions of the free wave equation is used. In the low frequency part the behavior of the solution operator is the same as that of the heat kernel. The derivative loss is sharp, too. The \(L^q-L^p\) estimates are used to prove local (in time) well-posedness of so-called \(H^s \cap L^r\) mild solutions, where \(r=r(n)\) describes additional regularity of the data. The first data has additional regularity on the base of \(L^r\) describing the derivative loss in the \(L^r-L^r\) estimates of weak solutions for free waves. Moreover, the authors study global (in time) well-posedness of \(H^s \cap L^r\) mild small data solutions and \(H^s\) mild small data solutions as well. It should be mentioned that the critical exponent of Fujita type belongs to the set of admissible exponents in power nonlinearities allowing global (in time) well-posedness for suitable small data. Finally, in the supercritical case the authors describe the asymptotic behavior of \(H^s \cap L^r\) mild small data solutions and in the subcritical case they provide lower bounds of the lifespan for \(H^s \cap L^r\) mild solutions and upper bounds of life span for \(H^s\) mild solutions.