Boundary Value Problems 
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 42954, 51 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/42954
Research Article

Blow up of the Solutions of Nonlinear Wave Equation

Svetlin Georgiev Georgiev

Department of Differential Equations, University of Sofia, Sofia 1164, Bulgaria

Received 14 March 2007; Accepted 26 May 2007

Recommended by Peter Bates

Abstract

We construct for every fixed n2 the metric gs=h1(r)dt2h2(r)dr2k1(ω)dω12kn1(ω)dωn12, where h1(r), h2(r), ki(ω), 1in1, are continuous functions, r=|x|, for which we consider the Cauchy problem (uttΔu)gs=f(u)+g(|x|), where xn, n2; u(1,x)=u(x)L2(n), ut(1,x)=u1(x)H˙1(n), where f𝒞1(1), f(0)=0, a|u|f(u)b|u|, g𝒞(+), g(r)0, r=|x|, a and b are positive constants. When g(r)0, we prove that the above Cauchy problem has a nontrivial solution u(t,r) in the form u(t,r)=v(t)ω(r) for which limt0uL2([0,))=. When g(r)0, we prove that the above Cauchy problem has a nontrivial solution u(t,r) in the form u(t,r)=v(t)ω(r) for which limt0uL2([0,))=.