Semilinear damped wave equations on the Heisenberg group with initial data from Sobolev spaces of negative order

Abstract: In this paper, we focus on studying the Cauchy problem for semilinear damped wave equations involving the sub-Laplacian $\mathcal{L}$ on the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^n$ with power type nonlinearity $|u|^p$ and initial data taken from Sobolev spaces of negative order homogeneous Sobolev space $\dot H^{-\gamma}_{\mathcal{L}}(\mathbb{H}^n), \gamma>0$, on $\mathbb{H}^n$. In particular, in the framework of Sobolev spaces of negative order, we prove that the critical exponent is the exponent $p_{\text{crit}}(Q, \gamma)=1+\frac{4}{Q+2\gamma},$ for some $\gamma\in (0, \frac{Q}{2})$, where $Q:=2n+2$ is the homogeneous dimension of $\mathbb{H}^n$. More precisely, we establish a global-in-time existence of small data Sobolev solutions of lower regularity for $p>p_{\text{crit}}(Q, \gamma)$ in the energy evolution space; a finite time blow-up of weak solutions for $1<p<p_{\text{crit}}(Q, \gamma)$ under certain conditions on the initial data by using the test function method. Furthermore, to precisely characterize the blow-up time, we derive sharp upper bound and lower bound estimates for the lifespan in the subcritical case.