Local solvability, blow-up, and Hölder regularity of solutions to some Cauchy problems for nonlinear plasma wave equations: III. Cauchy problems

Three Cauchy problems for Sobolev-type equations with a common linear part from the theory of ion acoustic and drift waves in a plasma are considered. The problems are reduced to equivalent integral equations. We prove the existence of unextendable solutions for two problems and the existence of a local-in-time solution for the third problem. For one of the problems, by applying a modified method of Kh.A. Levin, sufficient conditions for finite time blow-up of solutions are obtained and an upper bound for the solution blow-up time is found. For another problem, S.I. Pohozaev’s nonlinear capacity method is used to obtain a finite time blow-up result and two results concerning the nonexistence of even local solutions, and an upper bound for the solution blow-up time is obtained as well.