Wave equations associated to Liouville-type problems: global existence in time and blow up criteria

TL;DR

This paper studies wave equations linked to Liouville-type problems on compact surfaces, establishing global existence in sub-critical cases and blow-up criteria in critical and super-critical cases using variational analysis, fixed point methods, and Moser-Trudinger inequalities.

Contribution

It develops analysis for wave equations related to Toda systems and refines previous work on mean field equations, providing new global existence and blow-up criteria.

Findings

Proves global existence in time for sub-critical cases.

Provides blow-up criteria for critical and super-critical cases.

Employs variational analysis and improved Moser-Trudinger inequalities.

Abstract

We are concerned with wave equations associated to some Liouville-type problems on compact surfaces, focusing on sinh-Gordon equation and general Toda systems. Our aim is on one side to develop the analysis for wave equations associated to the latter problems and second, to substantially refine the analysis initiated in [11] concerning the mean field equation. In particular, by exploiting the variational analysis recently derived for Liouville-type problems we prove global existence in time for the sub-critical case and we give general blow up criteria for the super-critical and critical case. The strategy is mainly based on fixed point arguments and improved versions of the Moser-Trudinger inequality.