# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2012, 32(12): 4307-4320. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.4307

## Critical exponent for the semilinear wave equation with time-dependent damping

 1 Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P.R., China 2 Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan 3 Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027

Received  May 2011 Revised  May 2012 Published  August 2012

We consider the Cauchy problem for the semilinear wave equation with time-dependent damping $$\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} u_{tt} - \Delta u + b(t)u_t=|u|^{\rho}, & (t,x) \in \mathbb{R}^+ \times \mathbb{R}^N \\ (u,u_t)(0,x) = (u_0,u_1)(x), & x \in \mathbb{R}^N. \end{array}\right. (*)$$ When $b(t)=b_0(t+1)^{-\beta}$ with $b_0>0$ and $-1 < \beta <1$ and $\int_{{\bf R}^N} u_i(x)\,dx >0\,(i=0,1)$, we show that the time-global solution of ($*$) does not exist provided that $1<\rho \leq \rho_F(N):= 1+2/N$ (Fujita exponent). On the other hand, when $\rho_F(N)<\rho<\frac{N+2}{[N-2]_+}:= \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \infty & (N=1,2), \\ (N+2)/(N-2) & (N \ge 3), \end{array} \right.$ the small data global existence of solution has been recently proved in [K. Nishihara, Asymptotic behavior of solutions to the semilinear wave equation with time-dependent damping, Tokyo J. Math. 34 (2011), 327-343] provided that $0 \le \beta<1$. We can prove the small data global existence even if $-1<\beta<0$. Thus, we conclude that the Fujita exponent $\rho_F(N)$ is still critical even in the time-dependent damping case. For the proofs we apply the weighted energy method and the method of test functions by [Qi S. Zhang, A blow-up result for a nonlinear wave equation with damping: The critical case, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 333 (2001), 109--114].
Citation: Jiayun Lin, Kenji Nishihara, Jian Zhai. Critical exponent for the semilinear wave equation with time-dependent damping. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2012, 32 (12) : 4307-4320. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.4307
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