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Almost global solutions of 1D nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations with small weakly decaying initial data

Analysis of PDEs 2026-01-27 v1

Abstract

It has been known that if the initial data decay sufficiently fast at space infinity, then 1D Klein-Gordon equations with quadratic nonlinearity admit classical solutions up to time eC/ϵ2e^{C/\epsilon^2} while eC/ϵ2e^{C/\epsilon^2} is also the upper bound of the lifespan, where C>0C>0 is some suitable constant and ϵ>0\epsilon>0 is the size of the initial data. In this paper, we will focus on the 1D nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations with weakly decaying initial data. It is shown that if the HsH^s-Sobolev norm with (1+x)1/2+(1+|x|)^{1/2+} weight of the initial data is small, then the almost global solutions exist; if the initial HsH^s-Sobolev norm with (1+x)1/2(1+|x|)^{1/2} weight is small, then for any M>0M>0, the solutions exist on [0,ϵM][0,\epsilon^{-M}]. Our proof is based on the dispersive estimate with a suitable ZZ-norm and a delicate analysis on the phase function.

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@article{arxiv.2309.16213,
  title  = {Almost global solutions of 1D nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations with small weakly decaying initial data},
  author = {Fei Hou and Fei Tao and Huicheng Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16213},
  year   = {2026}
}
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