{ "id": "2108.05667", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-08-12T11:21:03.000Z", "updated": "2021-08-12T11:21:03.000Z", "title": "On the critical exponent and sharp lifespan estimates for semilinear damped wave equations with data from Sobolev spaces of negative order", "authors": [ "Wenhui Chen", "Michael Reissig" ], "categories": [ "math.AP" ], "abstract": "We study semilinear damped wave equations with power nonlinearity $|u|^p$ and initial data belonging to Sobolev spaces of negative order $\\dot{H}^{-\\gamma}$. In the present paper, we obtain a new critical exponent $p=p_{\\mathrm{crit}}(n,\\gamma):=1+\\frac{4}{n+2\\gamma}$ for some $\\gamma\\in(0,\\frac{n}{2})$ and low dimensions in the framework of Soblev spaces of negative order. Precisely, global (in time) existence of small data Sobolev solutions of lower regularity is proved for $p>p_{\\mathrm{crit}}(n,\\gamma)$, and blow-up of weak solutions in finite time even for small data if $1