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This paper surveys a few aspects of the global theory of wave equations. This material is structured around the contents of a minicourse given by the second author during the CMI/ETH Summer School on evolution equations during the Summer of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Dean Baskin , Rafe Mazzeo

The geometric Cauchy problem for a class of surfaces in a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of dimension 3 is to find the surface which contains a given curve with a prescribed tangent bundle along the curve. We consider this problem for constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-15 David Brander , Martin Svensson

A linear second order wave equation is presented based on cosmological general relativity, which is a space-velocity theory of the expanding Universe. The wave equation is shown to be exactly solvable, based on the Gaussian hypergeometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Firmin J. Oliveira

We discuss the scaling of the effective action for the interacting scalar quantum field theory on generic spacetimes with Lorentzian signature and in a generic state (including vacuum and thermal states, if they exist). This is done…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Edoardo D'Angelo , Nicolò Drago , Nicola Pinamonti , Kasia Rejzner

This paper studies the Cauchy problem for systems of semi-linear wave equations on $\mathbb{R}^{3+1}$ with nonlinear terms satisfying the null conditions. We construct future global-in-time classical solutions with arbitrarily large initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Shuang Miao , Long Pei , Pin Yu

In this paper, the existence, the uniqueness and estimates of solution to the integral Cauchy problem for linear and nonlinear abstract wave equations are proved. The equation includes a linear operator A defined in a Banach space E, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Veli Shakhmurov

This book aims to present some recent results on Prandtl equations and MHD boundary layer equations. This book is essentially divided into two parts. Chapter 1 as the first part systematically surveys the results till 2020 on Prandtl…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Yuming Qin , Xiaolei Dong , Xiuqing Wang

In this series of papers we aim to provide a mathematically comprehensive framework to the Hamiltonian pictures of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. Our final goal is to study the kinematics and the dynamics of the theory from the…

We give a summary of recent results on the explicit local form of the second-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds in arbitrary dimension, and its global version. These spacetimes turn out to be essentially a specific subclass of plane…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-17 O F Blanco , M Sánchez , J M M Senovilla

We consider the Cauchy problem with smooth and compactly supported initial data for the wave equation in a general class of spherically symmetric geometries which are globally smooth and asymptotically flat. Under certain mild conditions on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-23 Matthew P. Masarik

We study the local existence of strong solutions for the cubic nonlinear wave equation with data in $H^s(M)$, $s<1/2$, where $M$ is a three dimensional compact riemannian manifold. This problem is supercritical and can be shown to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 N. Burq , N. Tzvetkov

This paper discusses the solutions to the perturbed wave equation containing a singular potential term in the Lorentzian metric. We present the classical solution to the problem using the separation of variables method for any dimension, n.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashwin Vaidya , George Sparling

We study the wave equation for the gravitational waves in the Randal-Sundrum brane cosmology model. We solve the global Cauchy problem and we establish that the solutions are the sum of a slowly decaying massless wave localized near the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 Alain Bachelot

Further results are reported for the one-component quaternionic wave equation recently introduced. A Lagrangian is found for the momentum-space version of the free equation; and another, nonlocal in time, is found for the complete equation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Charles Schwartz

In this article we construct the fundamental solutions for the wave equation arising in the de Sitter model of the universe. We use the fundamental solutions to represent solutions of the Cauchy problem and to prove the $L^p-L^q$-decay…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-10-23 Karen Yagdjian , Anahit Galstian

This Chapter provides an up to date, pedagogical review of some of the most relevant advances in loop quantum cosmology. We review the quantization of homogeneous cosmological models, their singularity resolution and the formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Ivan Agullo , Alejandro Corichi

We provide a detailed construction of the quantum theory of the massless scalar field on 2-dimensional, globally-hyperbolic (in particular, Lorentzian) manifolds using the framework of perturbative algebraic quantum field theory. From this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Sam Crawford , Kasia Rejzner , Benoit Vicedo

We study the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear wave equation with low-regularity data. A space-time $L^2$ estimate for the variable coefficient wave equation plays a central role for this purpose. Assuming radial symmetry, we establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Kunio Hidano , Chengbo Wang , Kazuyoshi Yokoyama

We present a rigorous quantization scheme that yields a quantum field theory in general boundary form starting from a linear field theory. Following a geometric quantization approach in the K\"ahler case, state spaces arise as spaces of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-10 Robert Oeckl

The irreducible representations of the extended Galilean group are used to derive infinite sets of symmetric and asymmetric second-order differential equations with constant coeffcients. All derived equations are local and their Lagrangians…

General Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Z. E. Musielak