Special Session 77: Singularity and regularity in nonlinear PDEs

Lifespan estimates for semilinear damped wave equation in a two-dimensional exterior domain
Yuta Wakasugi
Hiroshima University
Japan
Co-Author(s):    Masahiro Ikeda, Motohiro Sobajima, Koichi Taniguchi
Abstract:
Consider the initial-boundary value problem for the two-dimensional semilinear damped wave equation with the critical nonlinearity $u_{tt} - \Delta u + u_t = u^2$ in the exterior of the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with the Dirichlet boundary condition. We obtain a sharp double-exponential type lifespan estimate $T(\verepsilon) \geq \exp(\exp(C \varepsilon^{-1}))$ under the assumption of radial symmetry. To achieve this result, we introduce a new technique to control an $L^1$-type norm and a new Gagliardo-Nirenberg type estimate with logarithmic weight.