AbstractWe prove that any sufficiently differentiable space-like hypersurface of {{\mathbb{R}}^{1+N}} coincides locally around any of its points with the blow-up surface of a finite-energy solution of the focusing nonlinear wave equation {\partial_{tt}u-\Delta u=|u|^{p-1}u} on {{\mathbb{R}}\times{\mathbb{R}}^{N}},
for any {1\leq N\leq 4} and {1<p\leq\frac{N+2}{N-2}}.
We follow the strategy developed in our previous work (2018) on the construction of solutions of the nonlinear wave equation blowing up at any prescribed compact set. Here to prove blow-up on a local space-like hypersurface, we first apply a change of variable to reduce the problem to blowup on a small ball at {t=0} for a transformed equation. The construction of an appropriate approximate solution is then combined with an energy method for the existence of a solution of the transformed problem that blows up at {t=0}.
To obtain a finite-energy solution of the original problem from trace arguments, we need to work with {H^{2}\times H^{1}} solutions for the transformed problem.
Global existence and blow-up of solutions for a nonlinear wave equation with memory