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Coupled wave equations are popular tool for investigating longitudinal dynamical effects in semiconductor lasers, for example, sensitivity to delayed optical feedback. We study a model that consists of a hyperbolic linear system of partial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-08-12 Jan Sieber

In classical continuum physics, a wave is a mechanical disturbance. Whether the disturbance is stationary or traveling and whether it is caused by the motion of atoms and molecules or the vibration of a lattice structure, a wave can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-14 Ivan C. Christov

We develop a general theory for the existence, uniqueness, and higher regularity of solutions to wave-type equations on Lorentzian manifolds with timelike curves of cone-type singularities. These singularities may be of geometric type (cone…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Peter Hintz

We study the lightlike foliations that appear on Lorentzian manifolds with weakly irreducible not irreducible holonomy algebra. We give global structure equations for the foliation that generalize the Gauss and Weingarten equations for one…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Natalia Bezvitnaya

This is a short survey on finite-volume hyperbolic four-manifolds. We describe some general theorems and focus on the concrete examples that we found in the literature. The paper contains no new result.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Bruno Martelli

The global characteristic initial value problem for linear wave equations on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds is examined, for a class of smooth initial value hypersurfaces satisfying favourable global properties. First it is shown…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Umberto Lupo

The fermionic signature operator is analyzed on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian surfaces. The connection between the spectrum of the fermionic signature operator and geometric properties of the surface is studied. The findings are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 Felix Finster , Olaf Müller

The standard linear approach to the gravitational waves theory is critically reviewed. Contrary to the prevalent understanding, it is pointed out that this theory contains many conceptual and technical obscure issues that require further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 J. G. Pereira

The generalized Bretherton equation is studied. The classification of the meromorphic traveling wave solutions for this equation is presented. All possible exact solutions of the generalized Brethenton equation are given.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2011-12-22 Maria V. Demina , Nikolay A. Kudryashov

This paper concerns an inverse boundary value problem of recovering a zeroth order time-dependent term of a semi-linear wave equation on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We show that an unknown potential $q$ in the non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leyter Potenciano-Machado , Teemu Tyni

We establish necessary conditions for the existence of solutions to a class of semilinear hyperbolic problems on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds, extending some nonexistence results for the wave operator with power nonlinearity on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Dario D. Monticelli , Fabio Punzo , Marco Squassina

We prove global existence for quasilinear wave equations outside of a wide class of obstacles. The obstacles may contain trapped hyperbolic rays as long as there is local exponential energy decay for the associated linear wave equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Jason Metcalfe , Christopher D. Sogge

We study the global theory of linear wave equations for sections of vector bundles over globally hyperbolic Lorentz manifolds. We introduce spaces of finite energy sections and show well-posedness of the Cauchy problem in those spaces.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Christian Baer , Roger Tagne Wafo

This paper considers hyperbolic wave equations with non-local in time conditions involving integrals with respect to time. It is shown that regularity of the solution can be achieved for complexified problem with integral conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-07 Nikolai Dokuchaev

The paper gives a comprehensive study of Inertial Manifolds for hyperbolic relaxations of an abstract semilinear parabolic equation in a Hilbert space. A new scheme of constructing Inertial Manifolds for such type of problems is suggested…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-24 V. Chepyzhov , A. Kostianko , S. Zelik

We prove boundary controllability results for wave equations (with lower-order terms) on Lorentzian manifolds with time-dependent geometry satisfying suitable curvature bounds. The main ingredient is a novel global Carleman estimate on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Vaibhav Kumar Jena , Arick Shao

For semilinear wave equations on Lorentzian manifolds with quadratic derivative non-linear terms, we study the inverse problem of determining the background Lorentzian metric. Under some conditions on the nonlinear term, we show that from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Yiran Wang , Ting Zhou

The theory of symmetric-hyperbolic systems is useful for constructing smooth solutions of nonlinear wave equations, and for studying their singularities, including shock waves. We present the main techniques which are required to apply the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Satyanad Kichenassamy

We introduce a class of causal manifolds which contains the globally hyperbolic spacetimes and we prove global propagation theorems for sheaves on such manifolds. As an application, we solve globally the Cauchy problem for hyperfunction…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Benoit Jubin , Pierre Schapira

I present a review of the recent advancements in scattering theory, which provides a unified approach to studying dispersive and hyperbolic equations with general interaction terms and data. These equations encompass time-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Avy Soffer