The blow up of solutions to semilinear wave equations on asymptotically Euclidean manifolds

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the problem of blow up and sharp upper bound estimates of the lifespan for the solutions to the semilinear wave equations, posed on asymptotically Euclidean manifolds. Here the metric is assumed to be exponential perturbation of the spherical symmetric, long range asymptotically Euclidean metric. One of the main ingredients in our proof is the construction of (unbounded) positive entire solutions for $\Delta_{g}\phi_\lambda=\lambda^{2}\phi_\lambda$, with certain estimates which are uniform for small parameter $\lambda\in (0,\lambda_0)$. In addition, our argument works equally well for semilinear damped wave equations, when the coefficient of the dissipation term is integrable (without sign condition) and space-independent.