Existence of global solution of a nonlinear wave equation with short-range potential
∗The author was partially supported by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Contract MM-516 with the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, Science and Thechnology.In this work we study the existence of global solution to the semilinear wave equation (1.1) (∂2t − ∆)u = F(u), where F(u) = O(|u|^λ) near |u| = 0 and λ > 1. Here and below ∆ denotes the Laplace operator on R^n. The existence of solutions with small initial data, for the case of space dimensions n = 3 was studied by F. John in [13],...
We revisit the existence problem for shock profiles in quasilinear relaxation systems in the case that the velocity is a characteristic mode, implying that the profile ODE is degenerate. Our result states existence, with sharp rates of decay and distance from the Chapman–Enskog approximation, of small-amplitude quasilinear relaxation shocks. Our method of analysis follows the general approach used by Métivier and Zumbrun in the semilinear case, based on Chapman–Enskog expansion and the macro–micro...
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