Non-delay limit in the energy space from the nonlinear damped wave equation to the nonlinear heat equation

Abstract

We consider a singular limit problem from the damped wave equation with a power type nonlinearity to the corresponding heat equation. We call our singular limit problem non-delay limit. Our proofs are based on the argument for non-relativistic limit from the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation by the second author, Nakanishi, and Ozawa (2002), Nakanishi (2002), and Masmoudi and Nakanishi (2002). We can obtain better results for the non-delay limit problem than that for the non-relativistic limit problem due to the dissipation property. More precisely, we get the better convergence rate of the $L^2$-norm and we also obtain the global-in-time uniform convergence of the non-delay limit in the $L^2$-supercritical case.