“…The value of δ has a strong influence on some properties of solutions to (1.7) and to the corresponding homogeneous linear equation. According to [4,57,6,5,56,37,46,43,27,17,47,54,55,44,45,7,48,21,26] for δ 0 the model in (1.7) is somehow an intermediate model between the semilinear free wave equation and the semilinear classical damped equation, whose critical exponent is p Fuj (n + α − 1) for δ ≥ (n + 1) 2 , where α is defined analogously as in (1.3), and seems reasonably to be p 0 (n + µ) for small values of delta. In this paper we will deal with the system (1.1) and we will investigate how the interaction between the powers p, q in the nonlinearities provides either the global in time existence of the solution or the blow-up in finite time.…”