Speaker: 

Yanqiu Guo

Institution: 

Weizman Institute

Time: 

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 340P

In this talk I will discuss the local and global well-posedness of coupled non- linear wave equations with damping and supercritical sources. Our interests lie in the interaction between source and damping terms and their influence on the behavior of solutions. I will introduce the method of using the monotone operator theory to obtain the local existence of weak solutions to our system. Also we extend a result by Brezis on convex integrals on Sobolev spaces, which allows us to overcome a major technical difficulty in the proof of the existence of solutions.