Global existence and nonexistence for nonlinear wave equations with damping and source terms (Q4537402)

The authors deal with the initial-boundary value problem \[ \begin{cases} u_{tt}- u_{xx}+|u|^{m-1}u_t= |u|^{p-1}u,\quad & \text{in }(0,1) \times(0,T),\\ u(x,0)=u^0(x),\;u_t(x,0)= u^1(x),\quad & \text{in }(0,1),\\ u(0,t)=0,\;u_x(1,t)=h(t), \quad &\text{in }(0,T), \end{cases} \] where \(m,p>1\) and \(h\in C^1[0,\infty)\). They show that whenever \(m\geq p\), then local weak solutions are global. On the other hand, they also prove that whenever \(p>m\) and the initial energy is negative, then local weak solutions cannot be global.