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We prove estimates for solutions of the Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous wave equation on $\R^{1+n}$ in a class of Banach spaces whose norms only depend on the size of the space-time Fourier transform. The estimates are local in time,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sigmund Selberg

This paper is devoted to the proof of a global existence result for the water waves equation with smooth, small, and decaying at infinity Cauchy data. We obtain moreover an asymptotic description in physical coordinates of the solution,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-16 Thomas Alazard , Jean-Marc Delort

We establish the small data solvability of suitable quasilinear wave and Klein-Gordon equations in high regularity spaces on a geometric class of spacetimes including asymptotically de Sitter spaces. We obtain our results by proving the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Peter Hintz

Solitary waves in a general nonlinear lattice are discussed, employing as a model the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic nonlinear coefficient. An asymptotic theory is developed for long solitary waves, that span a…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-05 Guenbo Hwang , T. R. Akylas , Jianke Yang

The paper is devoted to proving an existence and uniqueness result for generalized solutions to semilinear wave equations with a small nonlinearity in space dimensions 1, 2, 3. The setting is the one of Colombeau algebras of generalized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Hideo Deguchi , Michael Oberguggenberger

In this paper we investigate the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation for sums of squares of vector fields on compact Lie groups. We obtain the loss of regularity for solutions to the Cauchy problem in local Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Claudia Garetto , Michael Ruzhansky

We discuss the Cauchy problem for anisotropic wave equations. Precisely, we address the question to know which kind of Cauchy data on the lateral boundary are necessary to guarantee uniqueness of solutions of an anisotropic wave equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Mourad Bellassoued , Mourad Choulli

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

General Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 D. E. Afanasev , M. O. Katanaev

This paper establishes that on the domain of outer communications of a general class of stationary and asymptotically flat Lorentzian manifolds of dimension $d+1$, $d\ge3$, the local energy of solutions to the scalar wave equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Georgios Moschidis

In this note we concern with the wave maps from the Lorentzian manifold with the periodic in time metric into the Riemannian manifold, which belongs to the one-parameter family of Riemannian manifolds. That family contains as a special case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Tatsuo Nishitani , Karen Yagdjian

We consider the problem of small data global existence for a class of semilinear wave equations with null condition on a Lorentzian background $(\mathbb{R}^{3+1}, g)$ with a \textbf{time dependent metric $g$} coinciding with Minkowski…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Shiwu Yang

In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem for gravity water waves, in a domain with a flat bottom and in arbitrary space dimension. We prove that if the data are of size $\varepsilon$ in a space of analytic functions which have a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Thomas Alazard , Nicolas Burq , Claude Zuily

We investigate scattering properties of a Moyal deformed version of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in an even number of space dimensions. With rather weak conditions on the degree of nonlinearity, the Cauchy problem for general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Bergfinnur Durhuus , Victor Gayral

An important, if relatively less well known aspect of the singularity theorems in Lorentzian Geometry is to understand how their conclusions fare upon weakening or suppression of one or more of their hypotheses. Then, theorems with modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 I. P. Costa e Silva , J. L. Flores

We consider the Cauchy problem defined for a general class of nonlocal wave equations modeling bidirectional wave propagation in a nonlocally and nonlinearly elastic medium whose constitutive equation is given by a convolution integral. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-04 H. A. Erbay , S. Erbay , A. Erkip

This article represents the second installment of a series of papers concerned with low regularity solutions for the water wave equations in two space dimensions. Our focus here is on global solutions for small and localized data. Such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-24 Albert Ai , Mihaela Ifrim , Daniel Tataru

Solutions of the wave equation in a space-time containing a thin cosmic string are examined in the context of non-linear generalised functions. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to the wave equation in the Colombeau algebra G is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Vickers , J. P. Wilson

We introduce a method of solving inverse boundary value problems for wave equations on Lorentzian manifolds, and show that zeroth order coefficients can be recovered under certain curvature bounds. The set of Lorentzian metrics satisfying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Spyros Alexakis , Ali Feizmohammadi , Lauri Oksanen

We study the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear damped wave equation and establish the large data local well-posedness and small data global well-posedness with slowly decaying initial data. We also prove that the asymptotic profile of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Masahiro Ikeda , Takahisa Inui , Yuta Wakasugi

We equip the space of Cauchy hypersurfaces in a globally hyperbolic spacetime with a natural Hausdorff-type metric and study its properties, in particular completeness and local compactness, for Lorentzian manifolds and in more general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Christian Lange , Jonas W. Peteranderl