Blow-up rate for a semilinear wave equation with exponential nonlinearity in one space dimension

Abstract

We consider in this paper blow-up solutions of the semilinear wave equation in one space dimension, with an exponential source term. Assuming that initial data are in $H_{loc}^1\times L_{loc}^2$ or some times in $W^{1,\infty }\times L^{\infty }$, we derive the blow-up rate near a non-characteristic point in the smaller space, and give some bounds near other points. Our result generalize those proved by Godin under high regularity assumptions on initial data.