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We study the local existence of strong solutions for the cubic nonlinear wave equation with data in $H^s(M)$, $s<1/2$, where $M$ is a three dimensional compact riemannian manifold. This problem is supercritical and can be shown to be…
With a view towards studying the multitemporal wave equation on affine buildings recently introduced by Anker-R\'emy-Trojan [arXiv:2312.06860], we systematically develop the basic properties of the discrete wave equation on $\mathbb{Z}$ and…
A family of exact vacuum solutions, representing generalized plane waves propagating on the (anti-)de Sitter background, is constructed in the framework of Poincar\'e gauge theory. The wave dynamics is defined by the general Lagrangian that…
We study the wave equation for the gravitational waves in the Randal-Sundrum brane cosmology model. We solve the global Cauchy problem and we establish that the solutions are the sum of a slowly decaying massless wave localized near the…
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We solve the shifted wave equation \begin{align*} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial t^2}\varphi(x,t)=(\Delta_x+\rho^2)\varphi(x,t) \end{align*} on a non compact simply connected harmonic manifold with mean curvature of the horospheres $2\rho>0$.…
I describe a new algorithm for solving nonlinear wave equations. In this approach, evolution takes place on characteristic hypersurfaces. The algorithm is directly applicable to electromagnetic, Yang-Mills and gravitational fields and other…
We establish sharp pointwise kernel estimates and dispersive properties for the wave equation on noncompact symmetric spaces of general rank. This is achieved by combining the stationary phase method and the Hadamard parametrix, and in…
We deal with the Cauchy problem for a perturbed wave equation in the half-plane with data given on a part of the space-time boundary. The equation in consideration describes a wave process in a laterally inhomogeneous medium. We propose a…
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,…
We investigate a one-dimensional nonlinear wave system which arises from a variational principle modeling a type of cholesteric liquid crystals. The problem treated here is the Cauchy problem for the same wave speed case with initial data…
The conformal mapping approach is a well established technique for solving the Euler equations for potential flows with one spatial dimension. In this work, we extend this framework to problems with a weakly transversal dependence and, by…
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…
The hierarchy of integrable equations are considered. The dynamical approach to the theory of nonlinear waves is proposed. The special solutions(nonlinear waves) of considered equations are derived. We use powerful methods of computer…
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We consider the Cauchy problem for the weakly dissipative wave equation $$ \square u+\frac\mu{1+t} u_t=0 $$ with parameter $\mu\ge2$. Based on the explicit representations of solutions provided in [Math. Meth. Appl. Sci. 2004; {\bf…
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