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In recent time, by working in a plane with the metric associated with wave equation (the Special Relativity non-definite quadratic form), a complete formalization of space-time trigonometry and a Cauchy-like integral formula have been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 F. Catoni , P. Zampetti

In this paper, we initiate the study of the asymptotically AdS initial-boundary value problem for the Einstein-massless Vlasov system with $\Lambda<0$ in spherical symmetry. We will establish the existence and uniqueness of a maximal future…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Georgios Moschidis

The global characteristic initial value problem for linear wave equations on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds is examined, for a class of smooth initial value hypersurfaces satisfying favourable global properties. First it is shown…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Umberto Lupo

We prove the global classical solvability of initial-boundary problems for semilinear first-order hyperbolic systems subjected to local and nonlocal nonlinear boundary conditions. We also establish lower bounds for the order of nonlinearity…

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

Sufficient conditions for the well-posedness of the initial value problem for the scalar wave equation are obtained in space-times with hypersurface singularities

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 J. A. Vickers , J. P. Wilson

In this paper we consider an initial boundary value problem for a semilinear parabolic equation with absorption and nonlinear nonlocal Neumann boundary condition. We prove comparison principle, the existence theorem of a local solution and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Alexander Gladkov

In this paper, we show that under certain conditions on the coefficients and initial values, solutions of two different Bernoulli initial-value problems are symmetric to each other either with respect to the t-axis, or the y-axis, or the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Nadejda E. Dyakevich

The relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system of plasma physics is considered with initial data on a past light cone. This characteristic initial value problem arises in a natural way as a mathematical framework to study the existence of solutions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Simone Calogero

Well-posedness of the initial (boundary) value problem is an essential property, both of meaningful physical models and of numerical applications. To prove well-posedness of wave-type equations their level of hyperbolicity is an essential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-20 Ronny Richter , David Hilditch

We consider the initial-boundary value problem for systems of quasilinear wave equations on domains of the form $[0,T] \times \Sigma$, where $\Sigma$ is a compact manifold with smooth boundaries $\partial\Sigma$. By using an appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-23 H. -O. Kreiss , O. Reula , O. Sarbach , J. Winicour

Consider the characteristic initial value problem for the Einstein vacuum equations without any symmetry assumptions. Impose a sequence of data on two intersecting null hypersurfaces, each of which is foliated by spacelike $2$-spheres.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Jonathan Luk , Igor Rodnianski

An initial boundary value problem for one-dimensional hyperbolic compressible Navier-Stokes equations is investigated. After transforming the system into Lagrangian coordinate, the resulting system possesses a structure with uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Yuxi Hu , Yachun Li

In this article, we consider linear hyperbolic Initial and Boundary Value Problems (IBVP) in a rectangle (or possibly curvilinear polygonal domains) in both the constant and variable coefficients cases. We use semigroup method instead of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Aimin Huang , Roger Temam

We investigate the existence and the global causal structure of plane symmetric spacetimes with weak regularity when the matter consists of an irrotational perfect fluid with pressure equal to its mass-energy density. Our theory encompasses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-16 Philippe G. LeFloch , John M. Stewart

Motivated by the initial-boundary value problem for the Einstein equations, we propose a definition of symmetric hyperbolicity for systems of evolution equations that are first order in time but second order in space. This can be used to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Carsten Gundlach , Jose M. Martin-Garcia

We derive, in 3+1 spacetime dimensions, two alternative systems of quasi-linear wave equations, based on Friedrich's conformal field equations. We analyse their equivalence to Einstein's vacuum field equations when appropriate constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-23 Tim-Torben Paetz

In this article we are concerned with an inverse initial boundary value problem for a non-linear wave equation in space dimension $n\geq 2$. In particular we consider the so called interior determination problem. This non-linear wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Gen Nakamura , Manmohan Vashisth , Michiyuki Watanabe

We are concerned with hyperbolic systems of order-one linear PDEs originated on non-characteristic manifolds. We put forward a simple but effective method of transforming such initial conditions to standard initial conditions (i.e. when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Alexei Rybkin

In this paper, we consider the initial value problem for the Einstein-Vlasov-Scalar field equations in temporal gauge, where the initial data are prescribed on two characteristic smooth intersecting hypersurfaces. From a suitable choice of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 Marcel Dossa , Jean Baptiste Patenou

We prove the well-posedness of the initial boundary value problem for the Einstein equations with sole boundary condition the requirement that the timelike boundary is totally geodesic. This provides the first well-posedness result for this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Jacques Smulevici