Blow-up for Strauss type wave equation with damping and potential

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Abstract: We study a kind of nonlinear wave equations with damping and potential, whose coefficients are both critical in the sense of the scaling and depend only on the spatial variables. Based on the earlier works, one may think there are two kinds of blow-up phenomenons when the exponent of the nonlinear term is small. It also means there are two kinds of law to determine the critical exponent. In this paper, we obtain a blow-up result and get the estimate of the upper bound of the lifespan in critical and sub-critical cases. All of the results support such a conjecture, although for now, the existence part is still open.


In this paper, the authors study the blow-up phenomenon for the Cauchy problem of the wave equation with space-dependent critical damping and potential terms in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (\(n\ge 1\)), \(\partial_t^2 u -\Delta u + Ar^{-1}\partial_t u +Br^{-2}u=|u|^p\), with \(B>-(n/2-1)^2\), \(0\leq A < n-1+2\rho\) and \(\rho=\sqrt{(n/2-1)^2+B}-(n/2-1)\). Heuristically, the damping coefficient \(A\) and the potential coefficient \(B\) will lead to certain spatial dimensional shift from \(n\) to \(n+A\) and \(n+\rho\) separately. For small, nontrivial, nonnegative data of size \(\varepsilon\), it is shown that the solutions blow up in finite time for \(1+1 / (n+\rho-1) < p< p_c=\max(p_S(n+A), 1+2/(n+\rho-1))\), if \(p_c>1+1/(n+\rho-1)\). Here \(p_S(k)\) is the positive root of \((k-1)p(p-1)=2(p+1)\) (when \(k>1\), otherwise \(p_S(k)=\infty\)), which is also known as the Strauss exponent. In addition, the expected upper bound of the lifespan is also obtained. In order to prove the blow-up result, the authors employ the test function method. The test functions are based on a family of special solutions, inside the light cone \(|x|< t+\lambda\), to the linear dual problem \(\partial_t^2\Psi - Ar^{-1}\partial_t \Psi -\Delta \Psi +Br^{-2}\Psi=0\), which have the form \(\Psi_{\beta}(t,x)=r^\rho (t+r+\lambda)^{-\beta}\phi(\frac{2r}{t+r+\lambda})\), (\(\beta\in\mathbb{R}\), \(\lambda\geq 0\)), for hypergeometric functions \(\phi\) depending on \(n\), \(A\), \(B\).











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