Blow-up of positive-initial-energy solutions of a nonlinear viscoelastic hyperbolic equation (Q2493028)

The nonlinear viscoelastic equation with damping and source terms, \[ u_{tt}-\Delta u + \int^t_0 g(t-\tau) \delta u(\tau)d\tau + u_t| u_t|^{m-2}=u| u|^{p-2} \] with initial conditions and Dirichlet boundary conditions is considered. The existence of local solutins is proved. For nonincreasing positive \(g\) and for \(p> \max(2,m),\, \max(m,p)\leq \frac{2(n-1)}{(n-2)}, \, n \geq 3,\,m>1\) the author proves that there are solutions with positive initial energy that blow up in finite time.