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For a damped wave (or Klein-Gordon) equation on a bounded domain, with a focusing power-like nonlinearity satisfying some growth conditions, we prove that a global solution is bounded in the energy space, uniformly in time. Our result…
By means of a direct and constructive method based on the theory of semiglobal $C^2$ solution, the local exact boundary observability is shown for nonautonomous 1-D quasilinear wave equations. The essential difference between nonautonomous…
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By solving a singular initial value problem, we prove the existence of solutions of the wave equation $\Box_g\phi=0$ which are bounded at the Big Bang in the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmological models. More precisely, we show…
In this paper, we initiate the study of the global stability of nonlinear wave equations with initial data that are not required to be localized around a single point. More precisely, we allow small initial data localized around any finite…
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We consider the semilinear wave equation with power nonlinearity in one space dimension. We first show the existence of a blow-up solution with a characteristic point. Then, we consider an arbitrary blow-up solution $u(x,t)$, the graph…
We prove that the focusing cubic wave equation in three spatial dimensions has a countable family of self-similar solutions which are smooth inside the past light cone of the singularity. These solutions are labeled by an integer index $n$…
We derive, in 3+1 spacetime dimensions, two alternative systems of quasi-linear wave equations, based on Friedrich's conformal field equations. We analyse their equivalence to Einstein's vacuum field equations when appropriate constraint…
We prove global stability of Minkowski space for the Einstein vacuum equations in harmonic (wave) coordinate gauge for the set of restricted data coinciding with Schwartzschild solution in the neighborhood of space-like infinity. The result…
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In this paper, we prove that the Sobolev norm of solutions of the linear wave equation with unbounded perturbations of order one stay bounded for the all time. The main proof is based on the KAM reducibility of the linear wave equation. To…
In this note, we prove the global existence of solutions to the semilinear damped wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\leq6$, with critical nonlinearity under the assumption that the initial data are small in the energy space $H^1\times L^2$…
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For the radial energy-supercritical nonlinear wave equation $$\Box u = -u_{tt} + \triangle u = \pm u^7$$ on $\R^{3+1}$, we prove the existence of a class of global in forward time $C^\infty$-smooth solutions with infinite critical Sobolev…
Let $V$ be a locally finite, connected and weighted graph. We study non-existence results of non-trivial, non-negative solutions of the system $$ \begin{cases} u_{t t}-\Delta u \geq h_1|v|^p & \text { in } V \times(0, \infty), v_{t…
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We consider a semilinear wave equation in the whole space with a deep potential well. We prove that as the depth of the well tends to infinity, the solutions of the equation converge to the solutions of a wave equation defined on the bottom…
We prove the existence of infinite energy global solutions of the cubic wave equation in dimension greater than 3. The data is a typical element on the support of suitable probability measures.