The critical power of short pulse initial data on the global existence or blowup of smooth solutions to 3-D semilinear Klein-Gordon equations

Abstract

It is well-known that there are global small data smooth solutions for the 3-D semilinear Klein-Gordon equations $\square u + u = F(u,{\partial u})$ with cubic nonlinearities. However, for the short pulse initial data $(u, \partial_tu)(0, x)=({\delta^{\nu+1}}{u_0}({\frac{x}{\delta}}),{\delta^\nu }{u_1}({\frac{x}{\delta}}))$ with $\nu\in\Bbb R$ and $(u_0, u_1)\in C_0^{\infty}(\Bbb R)$, which are a class of large initial data, we establish that when $\nu\le -\frac{1}{2}$, the solution $u$ can blow up in finite time for some suitable choices of $(u_0, u_1)$ and cubic nonlinearity $F(u,{\partial u})$; when $\nu>-\frac{1}{2}$, the smooth solution $u$ exists globally. Therefore, $\nu=-\frac{1}{2}$ is just the critical power corresponding to the global existence or blowup of smooth short pulse solutions for the cubic semilinear Klein-Gordon equations.