The blow-up rate for strongly perturbed semilinear wave equations

Abstract

We consider in this paper a large class of perturbed semilinear wave equation with subconformal power nonlinearity. In particular, we allow log perturbations of the main source. We derive a Lyapunov functional in similarity variables and use it to derive the blow-up rate. Throughout this work, we use some techniques developed for the unperturbed case studied by Merle and Zaag [12] together with ideas introduced by Hamza and Zaag in [5] for a class of weather perturbations.