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We focus on the general theory to the Cauchy problem for one dimensional nonlinear wave equations with small initial data. In the general theory, we aim to obtain the lower bound estimate of the lifespan of classical solution. In this…

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In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for a non-homogeneous wave equation generated by the fractional Laplacian and involving different kinds of lower order terms. We allow the equation coefficients and data to be of distributional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Manel Bouguenna , Mohammed Elamine Sebih

In this paper, we study the solvability of a Cauchy- Dirichlet problem for nonlinear parabolic equation with non standard growths and nonlocal terms. We show the existence of weak solutions of the considered problem under more general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-01 Ugur Sert , Eylem Ozturk

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

In this paper, we study the wave equation on infinite graphs. On one hand, in contrast to the wave equation on manifolds, we construct an example for the non-uniqueness for the Cauchy problem of the wave equation on graphs. On the other…

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For a wave equation with pure delay, we study an inhomogeneous initial-boundary value problem in a bounded 1D domain. Under smoothness assumptions, we prove unique existence of classical solutions for any given finite time horizon and give…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Denys Khusainov , Michael Pokojovy , Elvin Azizbayov

Let K be a non-Archimedean local field with the normalized absolute value $|\cdot |$. It is shown that a ``plane wave'' $f(t+\omega_1 x_1+... +\omega_nx_n)$, where f is a Bruhat-Schwartz complex-valued test function on K, $(t,x_1,...,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-12-06 Anatoly N. Kochubei

In this paper we study the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a wave equation with multiplicities and space-dependent irregular coefficients. As in \cite{GR:14} in order to give a meaningful notion of solution, we employ the notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Claudia Garetto

The purpose of this note is to prove the existence of a conformal scattering operator for the cubic defocusing wave equation on a non-stationary background. The proof essentially relies on solving the characteristic initial value problem by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Jérémie Joudioux

We analyse an algorithm of transition between Cauchy problems for second-order wave equations and first-order symmetric hyperbolic systems in case the coefficients as well as the data are non-smooth, even allowing for regularity below the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-03 Clemens Hanel , Günther Hörmann , Christian Spreitzer , Roland Steinbauer

We consider a three-parameter family of non-linear equations with $(p+1)-$order non-linearities. Such family includes as a particular member the well-known $b-$equation, which encloses the famous Camassa-Holm equation. For certain choices…

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We introduce a probabilistic representation for solutions of quasilinear wave equation with analytic nonlinearities. We use stochastic cascades to prove existence and uniqueness of the solution.

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In the present paper we consider a general family of two dimensional wave equations which represents a great variety of linear and nonlinear equations within the framework of the transformations of equivalence groups. We have investigated…

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We analyse the Cauchy problem on a characteristic cone, including its vertex, for the Einstein equations in arbitrary dimensions. We use a wave map gauge, solve the obtained constraints and show gauge conservation.

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We prove the persistence of analyticity for classical solution of the Cauchy problem for quasilinear wave equations with analytic data. Our results show that the analyticity of solutions, stated by the Cauchy-Kowalewski and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Sergei Kuksin , Nikolai Nadirashvili

We establish the local well-posedness for a new nonlinearly dispersive wave equation and we show that the equation has solutions that exist for indefinite times as well as solutions which blowup in finite times. Furthermore, we derive an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Zhaoyang Yin

We solve the Cauchy problem for the $n$-dimensional wave equation using elementary properties of the Fourier transform.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-09 Alberto Torchinsky

This paper studies the properties of solutions for a double nonlinear time-dependent parabolic equation with variable density, not in divergence form with a source or absorption. The problem is formulated as a partial differential equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Mersiad Aripov , Makhmud Bobokandov

We consider the Cauchy problem for the wave equation in $\Omega\times{\mathbb R}$ with data given on some part of the boundary $\partial\Omega\times{\mathbb R}$. We provide a reconstruction algorithm for this problem based on analytic…

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