# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2012, 32(12): 4361-4390. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.4361

## Global existence and decay of energy for a nonlinear wave equation with $p$-Laplacian damping

 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0130, United States 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588 3 Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA 30149-5014, United States

Received  June 2011 Revised  January 2012 Published  August 2012

This paper presents a study of the nonlinear wave equation with $p$-Laplacian damping: $u_{tt} - \Delta u - \Delta _p u_t = f(u)$ evolving in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The nonlinearity $f(u)$ represents a strong source which is allowed to have a supercritical exponent, i.e., the Nemytski operator $f(u)$ is not locally Lipschitz from $H{1\atop 0}(\Omega)$ into $L^2(\Omega)$. The nonlinear term $- \Delta _p u_t$ acts as a strong damping where the $-\Delta _p$ denotes the $p$-Laplacian. Under suitable assumptions on the parameters and with careful analysis involving the Nehari Manifold, we prove the existence of a global solution and estimate the decay rates of the energy.
Citation: Mohammad A. Rammaha, Daniel Toundykov, Zahava Wilstein. Global existence and decay of energy for a nonlinear wave equation with $p$-Laplacian damping. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2012, 32 (12) : 4361-4390. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.4361
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