One-dimensional compressible heat-conducting gas with temperature-dependent viscosity

We consider the one-dimensional compressible Navier–Stokes system for a viscous and heat-conducting ideal polytropic gas when the viscosity [Formula: see text] and the heat conductivity [Formula: see text] depend on the specific volume [Formula: see text] and the temperature [Formula: see text] and are both proportional to [Formula: see text] for certain non-degenerate smooth function [Formula: see text]. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a global-in-time non-vacuum solution to its Cauchy problem under certain assumptions on the parameter [Formula: see text] and initial data, which imply that the initial data can be large if [Formula: see text] is sufficiently small. Such a result appears to be the first global existence result for general adiabatic exponent and large initial data when the viscosity coefficient depends on both the density and the temperature.