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This article focuses on almost global existence for quasilinear wave equations with small initial data in 4-dimensional exterior domains. The nonlinearity is allowed to depend on the solution at the quadratic level as well as its first and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-21 John A. Helms , Jason L. Metcalfe

We study global existence of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the wave equation with time-dependent damping and a power nonlinearity in the overdamping case. We prove the global well-posedness for small data in the energy space for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Masahiro Ikeda , Yuta Wakasugi

In this paper, we consider the initial value problem for nonlinear wave equation with weighted nonlinear terms in one space dimension. Kubo & Osaka & Yazici(2013) studied global solvability of the problem under different conditions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Kyouhei Wakasa

We consider the quadratically semilinear wave equation on R^d, d>=3, equipped with a Riemannian metric. This metric is non-trapping and approaches the Euclidean metric polynomially at infinity. Using Mourre estimates and the Kato theory of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-03 Jean-Francois Bony , Dietrich Hafner

The Cauchy problem for the nonlinear wave equation $$\Box u=(\partial u)^2, \qquad u(0)=u_0, u_t(0)=u_1$$ in three space dimensions is considered. The data $(u_0,u_1)$ are assumed to belong to $\widehat{H}^r_s(\R^3) \times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-23 Axel Gruenrock

This paper is concerned about the lifespan estimate to the Cauchy problem of semilinear damped wave equations with the Fujita critical exponent in high dimensions$(n\geq 4)$. We establish the sharp upper bound of the lifespan in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Ning-An Lai , Yi Zhou

We study both of the scattering and Cauchy problems for the semilinear wave equation with null quadratic form on the Schwarzschild background. Prescribing the scattering data that are given by the short pulse data on the future null…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Saisai Huo , Jinhua Wang

In this paper we establish blow-up results and lifespan estimates for semilinear wave equations with scattering damping and negative mass term for subcritical power, which is the same as that of the corresponding problem without mass term,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Ning-An Lai , Nico Michele Schiavone , Hiroyuki Takamura

The open question, which seems to be also the final part, in terms of studying the Cauchy problem for the weakly coupled system of damped wave equations or reaction-diffusion equations, is so far known as the sharp lifespan estimates in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Wenhui Chen , Tuan Anh Dao

This paper is devoted to the initial value problems for semilinear wave equations of derivative type with spatial weights in one space dimension. The lifespan estimates of classical solutions are quite different from those for nonlinearity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Shunsuke Kitamura , Katsuaki Morisawa , Hiroyuki Takamura

We establish the existence of a conservative weak solution to the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear variational wave equation $u_{tt} - c(u)(c(u)u_x)_x=0$, for initial data of finite energy. Here $c(\cdot)$ is any smooth function with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Alberto Bressan , Yuxi Zheng

This paper studies the upper and lower bounds of the lifespan for the classical solutions to the initial value problems of one dimensional wave equations with non-autonomous semilinear terms including the space-derivative of the unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Ning-An Lai , Cui Ren , Takiko Sasaki , Hiroyuki Takamura

In this paper we study the existence of global-in-time energy solutions to the Cauchy problem for the Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation, with a power nonlinearity: $$u_{tt}-u_{xx} + \frac\mu{t}\,u_t = |u|^p \,, \quad t>t_0, \…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Marcello D'Abbicco

We study the initial-boundary value problem of quasilinear wave equations outside of a star-shaped obstacle in four space dimensions, in which the nonlinear term under consideration may explicitly depend on the unknown function itself. By…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Dongbing Zha , Yi Zhou

It is well-known that in dimensions at least three semilinear wave equations with null conditions admit global solutions for small initial data. It is also known that in dimension two such result still holds for a certain class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Garving K. Luli , Shiwu Yang , Pin Yu

In this paper, we prove some blow-up results for the semilinear wave equation in generalized Einstein-de Sitter spacetime by using an iteration argument and we derive upper bound estimates for the lifespan. In particular, we will focus on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Alessandro Palmieri

For small-amplitude semilinear wave equations with power type nonlinearity on the first-order spatial derivative, the expected sharp upper bound on the lifespan of solutions is obtained for both critical cases and subcritical cases, for all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Kerun Shao , Hiroyuki Takamura , Chengbo Wang

We undertake a systematic review of some results concerning local well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for certain systems of nonlinear wave equations, with minimal regularity assumptions on the initial data. Moreover we provide a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergiu Klainerman , Sigmund Selberg

In this paper we study the initial boundary value problem for two-dimensional semilinear wave equations with small data, in asymptotically Euclidean exterior domains. We prove that if $1<p\le p_c(2)$, the problem admits almost the same…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Ning-An Lai , Mengyun Liu , Kyouhei Wakasa , Chengbo Wang

In this note, we study the Cauchy problem of the semilinear damped wave equation and our aim is the small data global existence for noncompactly supported initial data. For this problem, Ikehata and Tanizawa [5] introduced the energy method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Yuta Wakasugi