A note on blow-up results for semilinear wave equations in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes

Abstract: In this work we derive some blow-up results for semilinear wave equations both in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes. By requiring suitable conditions on a time-dependent factor in the nonlinear term, we prove the blow-up in finite time of the spatial averages of local in time solutions. In particular, we derive a sequence of lower bound estimates for the spatial average by combining a suitable slicing procedure with an iteration frame for this time-dependent functional.