Strauss's global existence and blowup conjecture for semilinear wave equations

Consider the semilinear wave equation

{t2uΔu=up,(t,x)R+n+1,u(0,)=u0(x),tu(0,)=u1(x),\left\{ \begin{aligned} &\partial_t^2 u-\Delta u=|u|^p, && (t,x)\in\mathbb R^{n+1}_{+},\\ &u(0,\cdot)=u_0(x),\quad \partial_tu(0,\cdot)=u_1(x), \end{aligned} \right.

where p>1p>1, n2n\geq 2, and uiC0(Rn)u_i\in C_0^{\infty}(\mathbb R^n) for i=0,1i=0,1. Let p1(n)p_1(n) be the positive root of

(n1)p2(n+1)p2=0.(n-1)p^2-(n+1)p-2=0.

Strauss's conjecture. If p>p1(n)p>p_1(n), then small-data solutions exist globally; if 1<p<p1(n)1<p<p_1(n), then small-data solutions blow up in finite time.

The conjecture identifies the critical exponent separating global existence from finite-time blowup for the semilinear wave equation. The source does not state a resolution status or describe the endpoint case p=p1(n)p=p_1(n).

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Primary source

Daoyin He, Ingo Witt and Huicheng Yin, “On the global solution problem for semilinear generalized Tricomi equations, I”, arXiv:1511.08722 (2015).

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