Blow-up of solutions to semilinear wave equations with a time-dependent strong damping

TL;DR

This paper studies the blow-up behavior of solutions to a semilinear wave equation with a time-dependent damping term, analyzing how the parameter influences solution blow-up and establishing local existence results.

Contribution

It introduces new blow-up results for semilinear wave equations with time-dependent damping and examines the effect of the damping parameter on solution behavior.

Findings

Blow-up occurs depending on the damping parameter and initial data.

The damping parameter $eta$ significantly influences the blow-up conditions.

Local existence of solutions in the energy space is established.

Abstract

The paper investigates a class of a semilinear wave equation with time-dependent damping term ($-\frac{1}{{(1+t)}^{\beta}}\Delta u_t$) and a nonlinearity $|u|^p$. We will show the influence of the the parameter $\beta$ in the blow-up results under some hypothesis on the initial data and the exponent $p$ by using the test function method. We also study the local existence in time of mild solution in the energy space $H^1(\mathbb{R}^n)\times L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$.