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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-07 Piotr T. Chrusciel

This paper is concerned with the initial boundary value problem for a nonconservative system of hyperbolic equation appearing in elastodynamics in the space time domain $x > 0, t > 0$. The number of boundary conditions to be prescribed at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Kayyunnapara Divya Joseph , P. A Dinesh

We consider a characteristic initial value problem for a class of symmetric hyperbolic systems with initial data given on two smooth null intersecting characteristic surfaces. We prove existence of solutions on a future neighborhood of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-29 Aurore Cabet , Piotr T. Chruściel , Roger Tagne Wafo

We give an introductory account of the general boundary formulation of quantum theory. We refine its probability interpretation and emphasize a conceptual and historical perspective. We give motivations from quantum gravity and illustrate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-06 Robert Oeckl

We investigate the initial-boundary value problem for linearized gravitational theory in harmonic coordinates. Rigorous techniques for hyperbolic systems are applied to establish well-posedness for various reductions of the system into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Bela Szilagyi , Bernd Schmidt , Jeffrey Winicour

We establish existence and uniqueness of generalized solutions to the initial-boundary value problem corresponding to an Euler-Bernoulli beam model from mechanics. The governing partial differential equation is of order four and involves…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2008-12-11 Günther Hörmann , Ljubica Oparnica

Linearisation is often used as a first step in the analysis of nonlinear initial boundary value problems. The linearisation procedure frequently results in a confusing contradiction where the nonlinear problem conserves energy and has an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Jan Nordström

We aim to prove a unique solvability of an initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for a time-fractional wave equation in a rectangular domain. We exploit the spectral expansion method as the main tool and used the solution to Cauchy problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Erkinjon Karimov , Nasser Al-Salti , Muna Al-Ghabsi

We discuss initial-boundary value problems of arbitrary spatial order subject to arbitrary boundary conditions. We formalise the concept of the conditioning of such a problem and show that it represents a necessary criterion for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-24 David A. Smith

The initial value problem is introduced after a thorough review of the essential geometry. The initial value equations are put into elliptic form using both conformal transformations and a treatment of the extrinsic curvature introduced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-09 James W. York

In this article we are concerned with an inverse initial boundary value problem for a non-linear wave equation in space dimension $n\geq 2$. In particular we consider the so called interior determination problem. This non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Gen Nakamura , Manmohan Vashisth , Michiyuki Watanabe

The initial-boundary value problem for a general balance law in a bounded domain is proved to be well posed. Indeed, we show the existence of an entropy solution, its uniqueness and its Lipschitz continuity as a function of time, of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Elena Rossi

This paper is concerned with the initial-boundary value problem to 2D magnetohydrodynamics-Boussinesq system with the temperature-dependent viscosity, thermal diffusivity and electrical conductivity. First, we establish the global weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Dongfen Bian , Jitao Liu

A key tenet of general relativity is the dynamical nature of space-time, ideally represented as an initial value problem. Here we explore the variational formulation of classical Einstein-Hilbert gravity as initial value problem by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Songmin Ha , Alexander Rothkopf

We establish the well-posedness of an initial-boundary value problem for a general class of time-fractional, advection-diffusion-reaction equations, allowing space- and time-dependent coefficients as well as initial data that may have low…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-24 William McLean , Kassem Mustapha , Raed Ali , Omar Knio

For systems of ordinary differential equations on a compact interval, we study the character of solvability of the most general linear boundary-value problems in Sobolev spaces. We find the indices of these problems and obtain a criterion…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Olena Atlasiuk , Vladimir Mikhailets

In generally covariant metric gravity theories with tensor matter fields, the initial value constraint equations, unlike in general relativity, are in general not just the 0\mu-components of the metric field equation. This happens because…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Ted Jacobson

The initial-boundary value problem for the two-dimensional regular four-velocity discrete Boltzmann system is analyzed in a rectangle. The existence and uniqueness of a classical global positive solution, bounded with its first partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Koudzo Togbévi Selom Sobah , Amah Séna d'Almeida

In this paper we prove stability estimates of logarithmic type for an inverse problem consisting in the determination of unknown portions of the boundary of a domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, from a knowledge, in a finite time observation, of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-03 Sergio Vessella

The present paper gives a priori bounds on the possible non-real eigenvalues of regular indefinite Sturm-Liouville problems and obtains sufficient conditions for such problems to admit non-real eigenvalues.

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-25 Jiangang Qi , Shaozhu Chen