Damped wave equation with super critical nonlinearities. (Q873246)

The authors consider the Cauchy problem for the semilinear damped wave equation \(\partial ^2_t u + \partial _t u - \Delta u = N(u)\), where essentially \(| N(U)| \leq C | u| ^{\rho }\), with \(\rho > 1 + n/2\). Assuming that the initial data are sufficiently small and smooth, they establish the global existence and decay of unique classical solution. The proof is based on a number of technical Fourier-type estimates of the linear part and the fixed point argument.