Global existence results for semi-linear structurally damped wave equations with nonlinear convection

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for semi-linear wave equations with structural damping term [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a constant. As is now well known, the linear principal part brings both the diffusion phenomenon and the regularity loss of solutions. This implies that, for the nonlinear problems, the choice of solution spaces plays an important role to obtain the global solutions with the sharp decay properties in time. Our main purpose in this paper is to prove the global (in time) existence of solutions for the small data and their decay properties for the supercritical nonlinearities.