Blow-up for semilinear wave equations with the scale invariant damping and super-Fujita exponent
Ning-An Lai, Hiroyuki Takamura, Kyouhei Wakasa

TL;DR
This paper investigates blow-up phenomena in semilinear wave equations with scale-invariant damping, extending previous results to larger exponents and broader damping constants, especially for super-Fujita exponents.
Contribution
It extends blow-up results for super-Fujita exponents in damped wave equations to larger exponents and wider damping constants, connecting to the Strauss exponent.
Findings
Blow-up occurs for larger exponents related to the Strauss exponent.
The blow-up result applies to a wider range of damping constants.
Extension of previous blow-up results to super-Fujita exponents.
Abstract
The blow-up for semilinear wave equations with the scale invariant damping has been well-studied for sub-Fujita exponent. However, for super-Fujita exponent, there is only one blow-up result which is obtained in 2014 by Wakasugi in the case of non-effective damping. In this paper we extend his result in two aspects by showing that: (I) the blow-up will happen for bigger exponent, which is closely related to the Strauss exponent, the critical number for non-damped semilinear wave equations; (II) such a blow-up result is established for a wider range of the constant than the known non-effective one in the damping term.
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Blow-up for semilinear wave equations
with the scale invariant damping
and super-Fujita exponent
Ning-An Lai 111Department of Mathematics, Lishui University, Lishui City 323000, China. e-mail: [email protected]. Hiroyuki Takamura 222Department of Complex and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Systems Information Science, Future University Hakodate, 116-2 Kamedanakano-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8655, Japan. e-mail: [email protected]. Kyouhei Wakasa 333 College of Liberal Arts, Mathematical Science Research Unit, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1, Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido 050-8585, Japan. email: [email protected].
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Abstract
The blow-up for semilinear wave equations with the scale invariant damping has been well-studied for sub-Fujita exponent. However, for super-Fujita exponent, there is only one blow-up result which is obtained in 2014 by Wakasugi in the case of non-effective damping. In this paper we extend his result in two aspects by showing that: (I) the blow-up will happen for bigger exponent, which is closely related to the Strauss exponent, the critical number for non-damped semilinear wave equations; (II) such a blow-up result is established for a wider range of the constant than the known non-effective one in the damping term.
1 Introduction
In this paper, we consider the following initial value problem.
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where and . We assume that is a “small” parameter.
First, we shall outline a background of (1.1) briefly according to the classifications by Wirth in [20, 21, 22] for the corresponding linear problem. Let be a solution of the initial value problem for the following linear damped wave equation.
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where , , and . When , we say that the damping term is “overdamping” in which case the solution does not decay to zero when . When , the solution behaves like that of the heat equation, which means that the term in (1.2) has no influence on the behavior of the solution. In fact, - decay estimates of the solution which are almost the same as those of the heat equation are established. In this case, we say that the damping term is “effective.” In contrast, when , it is known that the solution behaves like that of the wave equation, which means that the damping term in (1.2) has no influence on the behavior of the solution. In fact, in this case the solution scatters to that of the free wave equation when , and thus we say that we have “scattering.” When , the equation in (1.2) is invariant under the following scaling
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and hence we say that the damping term is “scale invariant.” The remarkable fact in this case is that the behavior of the solution of (1.2) is determined by the value of . Actually, for , it is known that the asymptotic behavior of the solution is closely related to that of the free wave equation. For this range of , we say that the damping term is “non-effective.” However, the threshold of according to the behavior of the solution is still open. We conjecture that it may be since we have the following estimates:
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In this way, we may summarize all the classifications of the damping term in (1.2) in the following table.
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Next, we consider the following initial value problem for semilinear damped wave equation.
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where and . We assume that is a “small” parameter.
For the constant coefficient case, , Todorova and Yordanov [15] have shown that the energy solution of (1.3) exists globally-in-time for “small” initial data if , where
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is the so-called Fujita exponent, the critical exponent for semilinear heat equations. It has been also obtained in [15] that the solution of (1.3) blows-up in finite time for some positive data if . The critical case has been studied by Zhang [24] by showing the blow-up result. We note that Li and Zhou [10], or Nishihara [12], have obtained the sharp upper bound of the lifespan which is the maximal existence time of solutions of (1.3) in the case of , or , respectively. The sharpness of the upper bound has been studied by Li [11] including the result for more general equations with all , but for smooth nonlinear terms. The sharp lower bound has been obtained by Ikeda and Ogawa [6] for the critical case. Recently, Lai and Zhou [9] have obtained the sharp upper bound of the lifespan in the critical case for .
For the variable coefficient case of the most part of the effective damping with , Lin, Nishihara and Zhai [13] have obtained the blow-up result if and the global existence result if . Later, D’Abbicco, Lucente and Reissig [2] have extended the global existence result to more general equations. For the precise estimates of the lifespan in this case, see Introduction in Ikeda and Wakasugi [7]. Recently, similar results on the remaining part of effective damping with have been obtained by Wakasugi [19] for the global existence part, and by Fujiwara, Ikeda and Wakasugi [5] for the blow-up part. The sharp estimates of the lifespan are also obtained by [5] except for the upper bound in the critical case.
Now, let us turn back to our problem (1.1). Wakasugi [18] has obtained the blow-up result if and , or and . He has also shown in [17] that an upper bound of the lifespan is
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where is a positive constant independent of . We note that the both proofs in [17] and [18] are based on the so-called “test function method” introduced by Zhang [24]. On the other hand, D’Abbicco [1] has obtained the global existence result if , but has to satisfy
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It is remarkable that, by the so-called Liouville transform;
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(1.1) can be rewritten as
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When , D’Abbicco, Lucente and Reissig [3] have obtained the following result. Let
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where
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is the so-called Strauss exponent, the positive root of the quadratic equation,
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We note that is the critical exponent for semilinear wave equations, in (1.1). They have shown in [3] that the problem (1.1) admits a global-in-time solution in the classical sense for “small” if in the case of although the radial symmetry is assumed in , and that the classical solution of (1.1) with positive data blows-up in finite time if and . In the same year, with radial symmetric assumption, D’Abbicco and Lucente [4] extended the global existence result for to odd higher dimensions (). We remark that, in the case of , Wakasa [16] has studied the estimates of the lifespan and has shown that the critical exponent changes to when the nonlinearity is a sign-changing type, , and the initial data is of odd functions. Both results in [3] and [16] heavily rely on the special structure of the massless wave equations, in (1.5). In view of them, may be an exceptional case. Recalling Wirth’ classification in the linear problem, (1.2), one may regard as a threshold also for the semilinear problem, (1.1). In this sense, the blow-up result in Wakasugi [18] says that the solution may be “heat-like” if . Here, “heat-like” means that the critical exponent for (1.1) is Fujita exponent.
In this paper, we claim that the solution of (1.1) is “wave-like” in some case even for . Here, “wave-like” means that the critical exponent for (1.1) is bigger than Fujita exponent and is related to Strauss exponent. We also conjecture that such a threshold of depends on the space dimension . The main tool of our result is Kato’s lemma in Kato [8] on ordinary differential inequalities which is improved to be applied to semilinear wave equations by Takamura [14]. Together with Yordanov and Zhang’s estimate in [23], we can prove a new blow-up result for wave-like solutions by means of some special transform for the time-derivative of the spatial integral of unknown functions.
This paper is organized as follows. In the next section, we state our main result. In the section 3, we estimate the spatial integral of unknown functions from below. Making use of such an estimate, we prove the main result for in section 4, and for in section 5.
2 Main Result
First we define an energy solution of (1.1).
Definition 2.1
We say that is an energy solution of (1.1) on if
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satisfies
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with any and any .
We note that, employing the integration by parts in (2.2) and letting , we have that
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This is exactly the definition of a weak solution of (1.1).
Our main result is the following theorem.
Theorem 2.1
Let ,
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Assume that both and are non-negative and do not vanish identically. Suppose that an energy solution of (1.1) satisfies
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with some . Then, there exists a constant such that has to satisfy
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for , where is a positive constant independent of .
Remark 2.1
Theorem 2.1 can be established also for if one define for in Section 3 below. But the result is not new. See the following two remarks.
Remark 2.2
In view of (1.4) and (1.8), one can see that
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Therefore is equivalent to
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We note that . This means that Theorem 2.1 just covers the non-effective range of for . Since is increasing in , Theorem 2.1 gives us the blow-up result on super-Fujita exponent even for in outside of the non-effective range for . We also note that for and for .
Remark 2.3
One can see also that
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Therefore we have that
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for and , or and . This means that Theorem 2.1 includes the blow-up result in Wakasugi [18].
Remark 2.4
If is in the scattering range, , for the problem,
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the result will be
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for all . This estimate coincides with the one for non-damped equation,
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except for the case of in and . See Introduction of Takamura [14] for its summary. The proof of this fact will appear in our forthcoming paper.
3 Lower bound of the functional
Let be an energy solution of (1.1) on . We estimate
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from below in this section. Choosing the test function in (2.2) to satisfy in , we get
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which means that
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All the quantities in this equation except for are differentiable in , so that so is . Hence we have
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Integrating this equation with a multiplication by , we obtain
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It follows from this equation and the assumption on the initial data that
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From now on, we employ the modified argument of Yordanov and Zhang [23]. Let us define
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where
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In view of (3.2) and the argument of (2.4)-(2.5) in [23], we know that there is a positive constant such that
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In order to get a lower bound of , we turn back to (2.2) and obtain that
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Multiplying the above equality by, we have that
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Integrating this equality over , we get
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It follows from this equation and
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which follows from integration by parts that
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If we put
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we have
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Hence we obtain that
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which yields
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where
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Integrating this inequality over with a multiplication by , we get
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We note that the assumption on implies . Hence we find that there is no zero point of for . Because the continuity of implies for small . If one assumes that there is a nearest zero point of to [math], then one has a contradiction in (3.5);
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The last term in the right-hand side of this inequality is positive by for . Turning back to (3.5), we obtain
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Here we have used the fact that .
Plugging this estimate into (3.4), we have
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Since and it follows from that
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we obtain that
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where
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Here we have used the fact that
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follows from
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Integrating this inequality over and making use of and
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we get
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where
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4 Proof of Theorem 2.1 for
Let us define
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where is the solution of (1.5). We note that (3.1) yields
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Then it follows from (2.4) and Hölder’s inequality that
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By combining (4.1) and (4.2), and noting the assumption , we come to
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where
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Due to (3.3), we have that
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which implies that
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From now on, we focus on the case of . Then it follows from (4.3) and (4.4) that
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We shall employ the following lemma now.
Lemma 4.1** (Takamura[14])**
Let satisfy
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Assume that satisfies
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where are positive constants. Then, there exists a positive constant such that
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holds provided
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Due to the lower bound of in (3.6) and the definition of in (4.4), we have
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which is (4.8) in Lemma 4.1 with
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The inequality (4.9) with
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follows from (4.6), and (4.10) is already established by (4.5). The final step to use Lemma 4.1 is to check the sign of . By the assumption that , we have
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Set
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Then, since is independent of by (4.5), one can see that there is an such that
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This means that in (4.12). Therefore the conclusion of Lemma 4.1 implies that the maximal existence time of has to satisfy
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where
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This completes the proof in the case of .
5 Proof of Theorem 2.1 for
Before showing the proof of Theorem 2.1 for , we first prepare the following lemma:
Lemma 5.1
Suppose that the assumption in Theorem 2.1 is fulfilled. Then it holds that
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for , where we set
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and
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, are the one in (3.6), (4.3), respectively,
Proof. Multiplying the both sides of (4.3) by and noting that (4.4), we get
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Integration by parts yields that
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Noting the assumption on
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it is easy to get that
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And hence we have
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Since
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and hence
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This is equivalent to
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Thus, for ( small enough), we have
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which implies
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Hence, it follows from
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that
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for .
On the other hand, for , we have
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which gives us
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by combining (4.13). Therefore, we get (5.1) from (5.4).
By (5.1), it is easy to see that there is a such that
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with holds for
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Here we use our lower bound of in (4.13) again to get
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where
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Therefore, taking small enough such that , we then have by integrating (5.6) over ,
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Making use of (4.13) with in this inequality, we obtain that
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where
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If one sets with , then, due to the definition of , one has
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Therefore the conclusion of the Theorem 2.1,
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is now established, where
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This completes the proof in the case of .
Acknowledgment
The first author is partially supported by NSFC(11501273), high level talent project of Lishui City(2016RC25), the Scientific Research Foundation of the First-Class Discipline of Zhejiang Province(B)(201601), the key laboratory of Zhejiang Province(2016E10007). The second author is partially supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No.15K04964), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and Special Research Expenses in FY2016, General Topics (No.B21), Future University Hakodate.
Finally, all the authors are grateful to Prof.M.Reissig (Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany) for his great advice on the classification of the linear problem for which our first manuscript of arXiv:1701.03232 was not appropriate.
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