Generalized Strauss conjecture for semilinear wave equations on $\mathbb{R}^3$

Abstract

In this manuscript, we focus on the more delicate nonlinearity of the semilinear wave equation $$\partial_{t}^2 u-\Delta_{\mathbb{R}^3}u=|u|^{p_S}\mu(|u|)\ ,u(0,x)=\varepsilon u_0,\ u_t(0,x)=\varepsilon u_1\ ,$$ where $p_S=1+\sqrt{2}$ is the Strauss critical index in $n=3$, and $\mu$ is a modulus of continuity. Inspired by Chen, Reissig\cite{Chen_2024} and Ebert, Girardi, Reissig\cite{MR4163528}, we investigate the sharp condition of $\mu$ as the threshold between the global existence and blow up with small data. We obtain the almost sharp results in this paper, which in particular disproves the conjecture in \cite{Chen_2024}.