This paper is devoted to proving the sharpness on the lower bound of the lifespan of classical solutions to general nonlinear wave equations with small initial data in the case n = 2 and cubic nonlinearity (see the r...This paper is devoted to proving the sharpness on the lower bound of the lifespan of classical solutions to general nonlinear wave equations with small initial data in the case n = 2 and cubic nonlinearity (see the results of T. T. Li and Y. M. Chen in 1992). For this purpose, the authors consider the following Cauchy problem: { where □=δt^2-∑i=1n δx^^2 is the wave operator, g(x)(≡/) 0 is a smooth non-negative function with compact support, and ε 〉 0 is a small parameter. It is shown that the solution blows up in a finite time, and the lifespan T(ε) of solutions has an upper bound T(ε) ≤ exp(Aε-2) with a positive constant A independent of ε, which belongs to the same kind of the lower bound of the lifespan.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10728101)the Basic Research Program of China (No. 2007CB814800)+1 种基金the Doctoral Program Foundation of the Ministry of Education of Chinathe "111" Project (No. B08018) and SGST (No. 09DZ2272900)
文摘This paper is devoted to proving the sharpness on the lower bound of the lifespan of classical solutions to general nonlinear wave equations with small initial data in the case n = 2 and cubic nonlinearity (see the results of T. T. Li and Y. M. Chen in 1992). For this purpose, the authors consider the following Cauchy problem: { where □=δt^2-∑i=1n δx^^2 is the wave operator, g(x)(≡/) 0 is a smooth non-negative function with compact support, and ε 〉 0 is a small parameter. It is shown that the solution blows up in a finite time, and the lifespan T(ε) of solutions has an upper bound T(ε) ≤ exp(Aε-2) with a positive constant A independent of ε, which belongs to the same kind of the lower bound of the lifespan.