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The initial value problem is well-defined on a class of spacetimes broader than the globally hyperbolic geometries for which existence and uniqueness theorems are traditionally proved. Simple examples are the time-nonorientable spacetimes…

We consider the Cauchy problem for evolutionary Faddeev model corresponding to maps from the Minkowski space $\mathbb{R}^{1 + n}$ to the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$, which obey a system of non-linear wave equations. The nonlinearity enjoys…

In dimensions $d\geq 4$, we prove that the Schr\"{o}dinger map initial-value problem admits global (in time) solutions for smooth data with small norm in the critical Sobolev space.

In this thesis the Cauchy problem and in particular the question of singularity formation for co--rotational wave maps from 3+1 Minkowski space to the three--sphere $S^3$ is studied. Numerics indicate that self--similar solutions of this…

Given a Hilbert space, we investigate the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation for operators with discrete non-negative spectrum acting on it. We consider the cases when the time-dependent propagation speed is regular,…

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for a semilinear damped wave equation with the nonlinear term $|u|^{1+2/n} \mu(|u|)$, where $\mu$ is a modulus of continuity. In recent papers by Ebert,Girardi,Reissig (Math. Ann. 378 (2020))…

The subject of the paper is the Cauchy problem for the wave equation in a space-time cylinder $\Omega\times{\mathbb R}$, $\Omega\subset{\mathbb R}^2$, with the data on the surface $\partial\Omega\times I$, where $I$ is a finite time…

In this paper, we prove the global existence of H\"older continuous solutions for the Cauchy problem of a family of partial differential equations, named as $\lambda$-family equations, where $\lambda$ is the power of nonlinear wave speed.…

For 3-D quadratic quasilinear wave equations with or without null conditions in exterior domains, when the compatible initial data and Dirichlet boundary values are given, the global existence or the maximal existence time of small data…

We study the Cauchy problem for 3-D nonlinear elastic waves satisfying the null condition with low regularity initial data. In the radially symmetric case, we prove the global existence of a low regularity solution for every small data in…

Solutions of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation on a non-globally hyperbolic spacetime, which contains closed timelike curves (time machines) are considered. It is proved, that there exists a solution of the Cauchy problem, it is…

In this paper, we study the skew mean curvature flow. The results are threefold. First, we prove the global regularity of solutions with initial data which are small perturbations of planes in Sobolev spaces. Second, we prove the modified…

In the present paper, we study the Cauchy problem for the wave equation with a time-dependent scale invariant damping $\frac{2}{1+t}\partial_t v$ and a cubic convolution $(|x|^{-\gamma}*v^2)v$ with $\gamma\in \left(-\frac{1}{2},3\right)$ in…

Consideration in the present paper is the existence of global solutions for the modified Camassa-Holm (mCH) equation with a nonzero background initial value. The mCH equation is completely integrable and can be considered as a model for the…

We consider wave maps on $(1+d)$-dimensional Minkowski space. For each dimension $d\geq 8$ we construct a negatively curved, $d$-dimensional target manifold that allows for the existence of a self-similar wave map which provides a stable…

We study the scattering problem for the nonlinear wave equation with potential. In the absence of the potential, one has sharp existence results for the Cauchy problem with small initial data; those require the data to decay at a rate…

This paper is devoted to the proof of a well-posedness result for the gravity water waves equations, in arbitrary dimension and in fluid domains with general bottoms, when the initial velocity field is not necessarily Lipschitz. Moreover,…

We consider the inverse problem to determine a smooth compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $(M, g)$ from a restriction $\Lambda_{\Src, \Rec}$ of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator for the wave equation on the manifold. Here $\Src$ and…

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…

We show existence and uniqueness for timelike minimal submanifolds (world volume of p-branes) in ambient Lorentz manifolds admitting a time function in a neighborhood of the initial submanifold. The initial value formulation introduced and…