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Global existence of small data solutions to 3-D semilinear Euler-Poisson-Darboux equations

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Pith's one-line read For three-dimensional Euler-Poisson-Darboux equations with damping μ ≥ 14/5, small data solutions exist globally once the power exceeds max{5/3, 1 + 2/μ}.

desk verdict Solid 3-D global-existence result for the EPD equation when μ ≥ 14/5, with an honest gap below the Fujita line for 14/5 ≤ μ < 3. read the letter →

arxiv 2607.04575 v1 pith:GMNPU3FC submitted 2026-07-06 math.AP

Qianqian Li , Huicheng Yin This is my paper · ORCID
classification math.AP MSC 35L7035L6535L67
keywords Euler-Poisson-DarbouxequationcriticalexponentglobalexistenceBesselfunctionvectorfieldKlainerman-Sobolevinequalityscale-invariantdampingFujita
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The paper settles part of a long-standing open question about when small smooth initial data produce global solutions of the three-dimensional semilinear Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation. When the damping coefficient μ is at least 14/5, the expected critical threshold collapses to the Fujita exponent 5/3. The authors prove that solutions remain global for every power p larger than the slightly stronger number max{5/3, 1 + 2/μ}. They obtain the result by constructing sharp time-decay estimates for the linear equation via Bessel and Hankel functions, then closing a contraction mapping argument inside a carefully weighted space of vector-field norms. For μ ≥ 3 the statement is optimal; for 14/5 ≤ μ < 3 a technical gap of size at most 1/21 remains, which the authors attribute to the present decay estimates rather than to the true critical exponent.

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A family of time-decay estimates for the linear homogeneous and inhomogeneous Euler-Poisson-Darboux operators, expressed through Bessel functions of the first and second kinds (or Hankel functions) and measured in Klainerman-type vector-field norms on R^{3}; these estimates convert the nonlinear problem into a contraction mapping inside a weighted space X(T).

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Either construct a global solution for some μ in [14/5, 3) and some p with 5/3 < p ≤ 1 + 2/μ, or exhibit finite-time blow-up for arbitrarily small data in that same range.

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Core claim

Theorem 1.1 asserts that if μ ≥ 14/5 and p > max{5/3, 1 + 2/μ}, then for all sufficiently small initial data the Cauchy problem admits a unique global solution belonging to the classical energy space C([1,∞); H^{2}) igcap C^{1}([1,∞); H^{1}) igcap C^{2}([1,∞); L^{2}). When μ ≥ 3 this completely solves the open question (A1); when 14/5 ≤ μ < 3 the same proof yields global existence above a slightly larger threshold.

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The proof needs the time integral of the nonlinearity to converge, which forces the artificial lower bound p > 1 + 2/μ and leaves a small gap below the expected Fujita exponent when μ is less than 3.

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Summary. The paper studies the 3-D semilinear Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation □u + (μ/t)∂_t u = |u|^p for t ≥ 1, with compactly supported smooth initial data of size ε. For μ ≥ 14/5 (so that p_crit(3,μ) coincides with the Fujita exponent 5/3), Theorem 1.1 asserts global existence of a unique small-data solution in C([1,∞); H^{2}) igcap C^{1}([1,∞); H^{1}) igcap C^{2}([1,∞); L^{2}) whenever p > max{5/3, 1 + 2/μ}. The proof proceeds by writing the solution via Fourier multipliers built from Bessel/Hankel functions, deriving zone-by-zone L^{2} decay estimates for the homogeneous and inhomogeneous linear problems under the vector-field norms (1.5), establishing a Sobolev embedding on S^{2} (Lemma 2.3), and closing a contraction mapping argument in the weighted space X(T) of (5.1).

Significance. The result settles the global-existence half of the open question (A1) for all μ ≥ 3 and for a large range of p when 14/5 ≤ μ < 3. Combined with the known blow-up theory for p ≤ p_crit, it therefore completes the critical-exponent picture for the 3-D EPD equation in the regime where the Fujita exponent dominates. The technical contribution is a careful adaptation of the vector-field method to the non-commuting damping term, using explicit Bessel asymptotics and a new embedding (2.20) that replaces the 2-D estimate of the authors’ earlier work. The gap of size at most 1/21 for 14/5 ≤ μ < 3 is openly acknowledged and does not affect the theorem as stated.

minor comments (4)
  1. Remark 1.1 and the sentence after (5.18) correctly flag the integrability restriction p > 1 + 2/μ, but a short forward reference in the introduction to the forthcoming work on the remaining gap would help the reader locate the limitation.
  2. In the definition of X(T) (1.11)/(5.1) the weight for μ ≥ 3 is written t^{3/2 − 3/(1+δ)}; the same δ appears later as ε_{1}. Unifying the notation would avoid a minor inconsistency.
  3. Several long displays in Sections 3–4 (e.g., (3.38)–(3.39), (3.84)–(3.85)) list every term arising from the recurrence relations; a brief remark that only the leading asymptotic is needed for the subsequent L^{2} bounds would improve readability without changing the argument.
  4. The tables of known results and open cases on pages 3–4 are useful; adding a column that records whether the data are radial would make the comparison with [4], [20], [23] and [3] more precise.

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No circularity: self-contained fixed-point existence proof with fully derived 3-D decay estimates

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The paper proves global small-data existence for the 3-D semilinear Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation by constructing an explicit solution operator via Bessel/Hankel multipliers (Section 2), deriving a Sobolev embedding under the vector-field norms (Lemma 2.3), establishing homogeneous and inhomogeneous time-decay estimates under those norms (Lemmas 3.1–3.3 and 4.1), and closing a contraction mapping in the space X(T) of (5.1). Every estimate is written out from the asymptotic properties of the special functions and Hardy/Klainerman inequalities; no parameter is fitted to data, no uniqueness theorem is imported to forbid alternatives, and the classical Strauss/Fujita exponents appear only as background. Self-citations to the authors’ earlier 2-D papers supply motivation and related results but are not load-bearing: the 3-D estimates are re-proved in full. The technical gap p > 1 + 2/μ (Remark 1.1) is openly attributed to integrability of the Duhamel integral and does not create a circular reduction. The derivation is therefore independent of its inputs by construction.

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The paper rests on classical special-function identities, the Klainerman vector-field calculus, and the known blow-up theory for the same equation. No free parameters are fitted; the only ad-hoc choices are technical cut-offs (ε₁, δ) that can be taken arbitrarily small.

assumptions (3)
  • standard math Asymptotic and recurrence formulae for Bessel J_ν, Y_ν and Hankel H_ν^± functions (Lemma 2.1–2.2, taken from NIST Handbook).
    Used throughout Sections 2–4 to bound the Fourier multipliers Ψ_j.
  • standard math Klainerman-Sobolev inequality and the commutation relations [□,Z] for the standard Lorentz vector fields (cited from Klainerman 1985).
    Underpins the vector-field norms (1.5) and the pointwise decay (2.30).
  • domain assumption Known blow-up for 1 < p ≤ p_crit(n,μ) (cited from several earlier papers).
    Used only to frame the open question; not needed for the existence proof itself.

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abstract

There is an interesting open question: for $n$-D ($n\ge 1$) semilinear Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation $\partial_t^2u-\Delta u+\frac{\mu}{t}\partial_tu=|u|^p$, where $t\ge 1$, $p>1$ and $\mu>0$, the global small data weak solution $u$ will exist when $p>p_{crit}(n,\mu)=\max\{p_s(n+\mu), p_f(n)\}$ with the Strauss exponent $p_{s}(n+\mu)=\frac{n+\mu+1+\sqrt{(n+\mu)^2+10(n+\mu)-7}}{2(n+\mu-1)}$ and the Fujita exponent $p_f(n)=1+\frac{2}{n}$. The blowup of weak solution $u$ has been shown when $1<p\le p_{crit}(n,\mu)$ meanwhile this open question has been solved for $n=1,2$. In the present paper, we focus on this open question for $n=3$ and establish the global existence of small data solution $u$ for $\mu\geq\frac{14}{5}$ (equivalent to $p_{crit}(3,\mu)=p_f(3)=\frac53$) and $p>\max\{\frac53, 1+\frac{2}{\mu}\}$.

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