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We consider the defocusing nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u + |u|^p u=0$ in the energy-supercritical regime p>4. For even values of the power p, we show that blowup (or failure to scatter) must be accompanied by blowup of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Rowan Killip , Monica Visan

In this paper, we study the future causally geodesically complete solutions of the spherically symmetric Einstein-scalar field system. Under the a priori assumption that the scalar field $\phi$ scatters locally in the scale-invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-20 Jonathan Luk , Sung-Jin Oh

We consider the asymptotic behaviour of finite energy solutions to the one-dimensional defocusing nonlinear wave equation $-u_{tt} + u_{xx} = |u|^{p-1} u$, where $p > 1$. Standard energy methods guarantee global existence, but do not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-26 Hans Lindblad , Terence Tao

We address the decay rates of the energy for the damped wave equation when the damping coefficient $b$ does not satisfy the Geometric Control Condition (GCC). First, we give a link with the controllability of the associated Schr\"odinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Nalini Anantharaman , Matthieu Léautaud , Stéphane Nonnenmacher

We prove existence and uniqueness of solution of a class of semi-linear wave equations with initial data prescribed on the light-cone with vertex the origin of a Minkowski space-time. The nonlinear term is assumed to satisfy a nullity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Marcel Dossa , Roger Tagne Wafo

We study semilinear wave equations with Ginzburg-Landau type nonlinearities multiplied by a factor $\epsilon^{-2}$, where $\epsilon>0$ is a small parameter. We prove that for suitable initial data, solutions exhibit energy concentration…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Robert L. Jerrard

In this paper, we study the focusing and defocusing energy--subcritical, nonlinear wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^{1+d}$ with radial initial data for $d = 4,5$. We prove that if a solution remains bounded in the critical space on its interval…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Casey Rodriguez

In this paper, we investigate the direct and indirect stability of locally coupled wave equations with local viscous damping on cylindrical and non-regular domains without any geometric control condition. If only one equation is damped, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Mohammad Akil , Haidar Badawi , Serge Nicaise , Virginie Régnier

We obtain estimates on the rate of decay of a solution to the wave equation on a stationary spacetime that tends to Minkowski space at a rate $O(\lvert x \rvert^{-\kappa}),$ $\kappa \in (1,\infty) \backslash \mathbb{N}.$ Given suitably…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Katrina Morgan , Jared Wunsch

The topic of this paper is a semi-linear, energy sub-critical, defocusing wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = - |u|^{p -1} u$ in the 3-dimensional space ($3\leq p<5$) whose initial data are radial and come with a finite energy. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-05 Ruipeng Shen

The paper introduces a new way to construct dissipative solutions to a second order variational wave equation. By a variable transformation, from the nonlinear PDE one obtains a semilinear hyperbolic system with sources. In contrast with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-07 Alberto Bressan , Tao Huang

In this paper, we consider the wave equation in 3-dimensional space with an energy-subcritical nonlinearity, either in the focusing or defocusing case. We show that any radial solution of the equation which is bounded in the critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Ruipeng Shen

This paper establishes that on the domain of outer communications of a general class of stationary and asymptotically flat Lorentzian manifolds of dimension $d+1$, $d\ge3$, the local energy of solutions to the scalar wave equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Georgios Moschidis

We investigate a semilinear wave equation with energy-critical nonlinearity and a nonlinear damping mechanism driven by the total energy of the system. The model combines the quintic defocusing term with a time-dependent dissipation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Marcelo Cavalcanti , Valéria Domingos Cavalcanti , Josiane Faria , Cintya Okawa

Solutions to the wave equation on de Sitter-Schwarzschild space with smooth initial data on a Cauchy surface are shown to decay exponentially to a constant at temporal infinity, with corresponding uniform decay on the appropriately…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-11-17 Richard Melrose , Antônio Sá Barreto , András Vasy

In this paper we study the long time behavior for a semilinear wave equation with space-dependent and nonlinear damping term. After rewriting the equation as a first order system, we define a class of approximate solutions that employ…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Debora Amadori , Fatima Al-Zahrà Aqel , Edda Dal Santo

We consider the pointwise decay of solutions to wave-type equations in two model singular settings. Our main result is a form of Price's law for solutions of the massless Dirac-Coulomb system in (3+1)-dimensions. Using identical techniques,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Dean Baskin , Jesse Gell-Redman , Jeremy L. Marzuola

We numerically evolve spherically symmetric solutions to the linear wave equation on some expanding Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetimes and study the respective asymptotics for large times. We find a quantitative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Flavio Rossetti , Alex Vañó-Viñuales

In this reviewing paper, we are interested in the proof of estimating the lifespan of classical solutions of semilinear wave equations with the critical exponent from above especially in low space dimensions. There are a few ways to show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Hiroyuki Takamura

For the damped wave equation on the torus, when some geodesics never meet the positive set of the damping, energy decay rates are known to depend on derivative bounds and growth properties of the damping near the boundary of its support, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Perry Kleinhenz
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