Some oscillatory properties of the wave equation in several space dimensions

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70)

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We establish various oscillation properties of the non-zero solutions to wave equations with Dirichlet boundary condition of the form \(u_{tt}- \Delta u+g(t,x,u)=0,\quad (t,x)\in {\mathbb{R}}^+\times \Omega;\quad u=0,\quad (t,x)\in {\mathbb{R}}^+\times \partial \Omega.\)Here, \(\Omega\) is a bounded open subset of \({\mathbb{R}}^ n\), \(n\geq 2\) and g: \({\mathbb{R}}^+\times \Omega \times {\mathbb{R}}\to {\mathbb{R}}\) verifies ug(t,x,u)\(\geq 0\). Specifically, - the solutions must change sign in any truncated cylinder (0,T)\(\times \Omega\) for T sufficiently large; - if \(\Omega\) is a ball, then radial solutions cannot remain positive near the boundary of \(\Omega\) during a time interval larger than the diameter of \(\Omega\) ; - a similar result holds in an arbitrary domain \(\Omega\) and for any solution of the linear equation.

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