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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

The paper is devoted to regularity theory of generalized solutions to semilinear wave equations with a small nonlinearity. The setting is the one of Colombeau algebras of generalized functions. It is shown that in one space dimension, an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Hideo Deguchi , Michael Oberguggenberger

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 the first part of this article, we will prove an existence-uniqueness result for generalized solutions of a mixed problem for linear hyperbolic system in the Colombeau algebra. In the second part, we apply this result to a wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Lalla Saadia Chadli , Said Melliani , Aziz Moujahid

We study existence, uniqueness, and distributional aspects of generalized solutions to the Cauchy problem for first-order symmetric (or Hermitian) hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations with Colombeau generalized functions as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Guenther Hoermann , Christian Spreitzer

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,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Michael Ruzhansky , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

We analyse an algorithm of transition between Cauchy problems for second-order wave equations and first-order symmetric hyperbolic systems in case the coefficients as well as the data are non-smooth, even allowing for regularity below the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-03 Clemens Hanel , Günther Hörmann , Christian Spreitzer , Roland Steinbauer

We consider wave equations on Lorentzian manifolds in case of low regularity. We first extend the classical solution theory to prove global unique solvability of the Cauchy problem for distributional data and right hand side on smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Guenther Hoermann , Michael Kunzinger , Roland Steinbauer

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

In the present work, we consider the Cauchy problem for the time fractional diffusion equation involving the general Caputo-type differential operator proposed by Kochubei. First, the existence, the positivity and the long time behavior of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Chung-Sik Sin

In this paper, some known and novel properties of the Cauchy and signaling problems for the one-dimensional time-fractional diffusion-wave equation with the Caputo fractional derivative of order $\beta,\ 1 \le \beta \le 2$ are investigated.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Yuri Luchko , Francesco Mainardi

We investigate the properties of the set of singularities of semiconcave solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations of the form \begin{equation*} u_t(t,x)+H(\nabla u(t,x))=0, \qquad\text{a.e. }(t,x)\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Piermarco Cannarsa , Marco Mazzola , Carlo Sinestrari

This paper is devoted to study the wave propagation and its stability for a class of two-component discrete diffusive systems. We first establish the existence of positive monotone monostable traveling wave fronts. Then, applying the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Zhixian Yu , Yuji Wan , Cheng-Hsiung Hsu

This study deals with the analysis of the Cauchy problem of a general class of nonlocal nonlinear equations modeling the bi-directional propagation of dispersive waves in various contexts. The nonlocal nature of the problem is reflected by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Ceni Babaoglu , Husnu A. Erbay , Albert Erkip

It is studied the Cauchy problem for the equations of Burgers' type but with bounded dissipation flux. Such equations degenerate to hyperbolic ones as the velocity gradient tends to infinity. Thus the discontinuous solutions are permitted.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri G. Rykov

This paper presents two remarkable phenomena associated with the heat equation with a time delay: namely, the propagation of singularities and periodicity. These are manifested through a distinctive mode of propagation of singularities in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Gengsheng Wang , Huaiqiang Yu , Yubiao Zhang

In this paper we consider an acoustic problem of wave propagation through a discontinuous medium. The problem is reduced to the dissipative wave equation with distributional dissipation. We show that this problem has a so-called very weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Juan Carlos Munoz , Michael Ruzhansky , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

In this paper we consider a semiclassical version of the wave equations with singular H\"{o}lder time-dependent propagation speeds on the lattice $\hbar\mathbb{Z}^{n}$. We allow the propagation speed to vanish leading to the weakly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Aparajita Dasgupta , Michael Ruzhansky , Abhilash Tushir

Modelling of singularities given by discontinuous functions or distributions by means of generalized functions has proved useful in many problems posed by physical phenomena. We introduce in a systematic way generalized functions of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-31 Blagovest Damyanov

We use the framework of Colombeau algebras of generalized functions to study existence and uniqueness of global generalized solutions to mixed non-local problems for a semilinear hyperbolic system. Coefficients of the system as well as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Irina Kmit
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