<p style='text-indent:20px;'>In this paper, we consider a class of finitely degenerate coupled parabolic systems. At high initial energy level <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ J(u_{0})>d $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>, we present a new sufficient condition to describe the global existence and nonexistence of solutions for problem (1)-(4) respectively. Moreover, by applying the Levine's concavity method, we give some affirmative answers to finite time blow up of solutions at arbitrary positive initial energy <inline-formula><tex-math id="M2">\begin{document}$ J(u_{0})>0 $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>, including the estimate of upper bound of blowup time.</p>
Blow-up of positive-initial-energy solutions of a nonlinear viscoelastic hyperbolic equation
