The Local Existence for Semilinear Wave Equations

The Cauchy problem for the semilinear wave equation has been studied and results show that the problem is locally well-posed in Hs(Rn) for s>max{0,n /2-1}. We extend the results by Lindblad in R3 to R2 and R1. The methods used in this paper are different from those of Lindblad and also the methods are more simple.