Sharp lifespan estimates of blowup solutions to semi-linear wave equations with time-dependent effective damping

Abstract

We consider the initial value problem for a semi-linear wave equation with a time-dependent effective damping term. The interest is the behavior of lifespan of solutions in view of the asymptotic profile of the coefficient of damping as time tends to infinity. A simple case of effective damping and a threshold case in the sense of overdamping were discussed in Ikeda and Wakasugi (2015) and Ikeda and Inui (2019), respectively. We discuss here general damping terms under a certain assumption that is discussed. The result of this paper is the sharp lifespan estimates of blowup solutions including the typical cases treated in previous studies. The proof of the upper bound of lifespan is a modification of the test-function method by Ikeda–Sobajima (2019) and the one of lower bound is based on the technique of scaling variables introduced by Gallay and Raugel (1998) for the one-dimensional case and Wakasugi (2017) for the higher-dimensional case.