Global existence of solutions to some quasilinear wave equation in one space dimension.

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15)

Abstract: We consider the global existence and blow up of solutions of the Cauchy problem of the quasilinear wave equation:

p a r t i a l_{t}^{2} u = p a r t i a l_{x} (c (u)^{2} p a r t i a l_{x} u)

, which has richly physical backgrounds. Under the assumption that

c (u (0, x)) g e q d e l t a

for some

d e l t a > 0

, we give sufficient conditions for the existence of global smooth solutions and the occurrence of two types of blow-up respectively. One of the two types is that

L^{i n f t y}

-norm of

p a r t i a l_{t} u

or

p a r t i a l_{x} u

goes up to the infinity. The other type is that

c (u)

vanishes, that is, the equation degenerates.

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