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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Kunio Hidano , Dongbing Zha

We consider the Cauchy problem for the wave equation in a general class of spherically symmetric black hole geometries. Under certain mild conditions on the far-field decay and the singularity, we show that there is a unique globally smooth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-14 Matthew P. Masarik

In this paper, we obtain general conditions under which the wave equation is well-posed in spacetimes with metrics of Lipschitz regularity. In particular, the results can be applied to spacetimes where there is a loss of regularity on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-14 Yafet Sanchez Sanchez , James A. Vickers

We consider the problem of small data global existence for quasilinear wave equations with null condition on a class of Lorentzian manifolds $(\mathbb{R}^{3+1}, g)$ with \textbf{time dependent} inhomogeneous metric. We show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Shiwu Yang

In this paper we prove the global existence and uniqueness of the low regularity solutions to the Cauchy problem of quasi-linear wave equations with radial symmetric initial data in three space dimensions. The results are based on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yi Zhou , Zhen Lei

This paper is devoted to strictly hyperbolic systems and equations with non-smooth coefficients. Below a certain level of smoothness, distributional solutions may fail to exist. We construct generalised solutions in the Colombeau algebra of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-12 Claudia Garetto , Michael Oberguggenberger

In this paper we study the Cauchy problem for second order strictly hyperbolic operators when the coefficients of the principal part are not Lipschitz continuous, but only "Log-Lipschitz" with respect to all the variables. This class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ferruccio Colombini , Guy Metivier

This article addresses linear hyperbolic partial differential equations with non-smooth coefficients and distributional data. Solutions are studied in the framework of Colombeau algebras of generalized functions. Its aim is to prove upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Hideo Deguchi , Michael Oberguggenberger

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

In this paper we study the Cauchy problem for the wave equations for hypoelliptic homogeneous left-invariant operators on graded Lie groups when the time-dependent non-negative propagation speed is regular, H\"older, and distributional. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Michael Ruzhansky , Nurgissa Yessirkegenov

In this paper we study the Cauchy problem for the Landau Hamiltonian wave equation, with time dependent irregular (distributional) electromagnetic field and similarly irregular velocity. For such equations, we describe the notion of a `very…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-05 Michael Ruzhansky , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Ya. Arefeva , T. Ishiwatari , I. V. Volovich

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

We construct counterexamples to inverse problems for the wave operator on domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $n \ge 2$, and on Lorentzian manifolds. We show that non-isometric Lorentzian metrics can lead to same partial data measurements, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Tony Liimatainen , Lauri Oksanen

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

We study the following problem: Given initial data on a compact Cauchy horizon, does there exist a unique solution to wave equations on the globally hyperbolic region? Our main results apply to any spacetime satisfying the null energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Oliver Lindblad Petersen

The Cauchy problem for a quasilinear system of hyperbolic equations describing plane one-dimensional relativistic oscillations of electrons in a cold plasma is considered. For some simplified formulation of the problem, a criterion for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Olga S. Rozanova , Eugeniy V. Chizhonkov

We prove a splitting theorem for globally hyperbolic, weighted spacetimes with metrics and weights of regularity $C^1$ by combining elliptic techniques for the negative homogeneity $p$-d'Alembert operator from our recent work in the smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Mathias Braun , Nicola Gigli , Robert J. McCann , Argam Ohanyan , Clemens Sämann

The Cauchy problem for nonlinear elastic wave equations with viscoelastic damping terms is investigated in $L^{p}$ framework. It is proved that the small global solutions constructed in $L^{2}$-Sobolev spaces in our preceding paper [12]…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Yoshiyuki Kagei , Hiroshi Takeda

We consider general relativity with cosmological constant minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field and assume that the four-dimensional space-time manifold is a warped product of two surfaces with Lorentzian and Euclidean signature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-17 D. E. Afanasev , M. O. Katanaev