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We construct the solution of the Riemann problem for the shallow water equations with discontinuous topography. The system under consideration is non-strictly hyperbolic and does not admit a fully conservative form, and we establish the…

Due to the space and time dependence of the wave function in the time dependent Schroedinger equation, different boundary conditions are possible. The equation is usually solved as an ``initial value problem'', by fixing the value of the…

The author gives an alternative and simple proof of the global existence of smooth solutions to the Cauchy problem for wave maps from the 1+2-dimensional Minkowski space to an arbitrary compact smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary,…

In this paper we discuss the coupled dynamics, following from a suitable Lagrangian, of a harmonic or wave map $\phi$ and Einstein's gravitation described by a metric $g$. The main results concern energy conditions for wave maps, harmonic…

We show that on an a-priori unknown Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$, measuring the source-to-solution map for the semilinear wave equation at a single point determines the topological, differential, and geometric structure.

Formally second-order correct, mathematical descriptions of long-crested water waves propagating mainly in one direction are derived. These equations are analogous to the first-order approximations of KdV- or BBM-type. The advantage of…

In this paper we consider the inverse problem of determining on a compact Riemannian manifold the electric potential and the absorption coefficient in the wave equation with Dirichlet data from measured Neumann boundary observations. This…

We study the wave equation on a bounded domain of $\mathbb R^m$ and on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with boundary. We assume that the coefficients of the wave equation are unknown but that we are given the hyperbolic…

We study the unique recovery of time-independent lower order terms appearing in the symmetric first order perturbation of the Riemannian wave equation by sending and measuring waves in disjoint open sets of \textit{a priori} known closed…

We pursue the analysis made in [1] on the arithmetic area enclosed by m closed Brownian paths. We pay a particular attention to the random variable S{n1,n2, ...,n} (m) which is the arithmetic area of the set of points, also called winding…

We study a probabilistic numerical method for the solution of both boundary and initial value problems that returns a joint Gaussian process posterior over the solution. Such methods have concrete value in the statistics on Riemannian…

Let M be a smooth compact oriented manifold without boundary, imbedded in a euclidean space E and let f be a smooth map of M into a Riemannian manifold N. An unknown state x in M is observed via X=x+su where s>0 is a small parameter and u…

We consider in this work a one parameter family of hypoelliptic diffusion processes on the unit tangent bundle $T^1 \mathcal M$ of a Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal M,g)$, collectively called kinetic Brownian motions, that are random…

We present the first results from a Bayesian analysis of the WMAP first year data using a Gibbs sampling technique. Using two independent, parallel supercomputer codes we analyze the WMAP Q, V and W bands. The analysis results in a full…

Inspired by the work of Burq and Tzvetkov (Invent. math. 173(2008), 449-475.), firstly, we construct the local strong solution to the cubic nonlinear wave equation with random data for a large set of initial data in $H^{s}(M)$ with $s\geq…

We prove quantitative versions of the following statement: If a solution of the 1+1-dimensional wave equation has spatially compact support and consists mainly of positive frequencies, then it must have a significant high-frequency…

We are interested in the analysis of Gibbs measures defined on two independent Brownian paths in $\mathbb R^d$ interacting through a mutual self-attraction. This is expressed by the Hamiltonian $\int\int_{\mathbb R^{2d}} V(x-y) \mu(d…

We prove global well-posedness of the initial value problem for a class of variational quasilinear wave equations, in one spatial dimension, with initial data that is not-necessarily small. Key to our argument is a form of quasilinear null…

We consider a linear Hamiltonian system consisting of a classical particle and a scalar field describing by the wave or Klein-Gordon equations with variable coefficients. The initial data of the system are supposed to be a random function…

This work is concerned with the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation. This model was deduced as an approximation to the Korteweg-de Vries equation in the description of unidirectional propagation of long waves. Our goal here is to study unique…