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We improve on recent results that establish the existence of solutions of certain semilinear wave equations possessing an interface that roughly sweeps out a timelike surface of vanishing mean curvature in Minkowski space. Compared to…
The periodic standing wave approach to binary inspiral assumes rigid rotation of gravitational fields and hence helically symmetric solutions. To exploit the symmetry, numerical computations must solve for ``helical scalars,'' fields that…
With the example of the spherically symmetric scalar wave equation on Minkowski space-time we demonstrate that a fully pseudospectral scheme (i.e. spectral with respect to both spatial and time directions) can be applied for solving…
We consider the helical reduction of the wave equation with an arbitrary source on $(n+1)$-dimensional Minkowski space, $n\geq2$. The reduced equation is of mixed elliptic-hyperbolic type on ${\bf R}^n$. We obtain a uniqueness theorem for…
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Motivated by the partial differential equations of mixed type that arise in the reduction of the Einstein equations by a helical Killing vector field, we consider a boundary value problem for the helically-reduced wave equation with an…
Some future global properties of cosmological solutions for the Einstein-Vlasov-Maxwell system with surface symmetry are presented. Global existence is proved, the homogeneous spacetimes are future complete for causal trajectories, and the…
We develop a time-domain numerical framework for global scalar wave scattering in Minkowski spacetime. The main contribution is an exact conformal matching of three compactified regions: a past hyperboloidal domain attached to $\mathscr…
In this paper, we consider the steadiness of symmetric solutions to two dispersive models in shallow water and hyperelastic mechanics, respectively. These models are derived previously in the two-dimensional setting and can be viewed as the…
We show that (specifically scaled) equations of shear-free null geodesic congruences on the Minkowski space-time possess intrinsic self-dual, restricted gauge and algebraic structures. The complex eikonal, Weyl 2-spinor, $SL(2,\mathbb C)$…
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It is known that there exist solutions with interfaces to various scalar nonlinear wave equations. In this paper, we look for solutions of a two-component system of nonlinear wave equations where one of the components has an interface and…
We establish sharp pointwise kernel estimates and dispersive properties for the wave equation on noncompact symmetric spaces of general rank. This is achieved by combining the stationary phase method and the Hadamard parametrix, and in…
Motivated by recent experimental studies of matter-waves and optical beams in double well potentials, we study the solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation in such a context. Using a Galerkin-type approach, we obtain a detailed…
We extend Penrose's peeling model for the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the scalar wave equation at null infinity on asymptotically flat backgrounds, which is well understood for flat space-time, to Schwarzschild and the…
We study semilinear wave equations with Ginzburg-Landau type nonlinearities multiplied by a factor $\epsilon^{-2}$, where $\epsilon>0$ is a small parameter. We prove that for suitable initial data, solutions exhibit energy concentration…
We consider the scalar wave equation with power nonlinearity in n+1 dimensions. Unlike most previous numerical studies, we go beyond the radial case and do not assume any symmetries for n=3, and we only impose an SO(n-1) symmetry in higher…
We review a technique for solving a class of classical linear partial differential systems of relevance to physics in Minkowski spacetime. All the equations are amenable to analysis in terms of complex solutions in the kernel of the scalar…