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We consider a second order linear evolution equation with a dissipative term multiplied by a time-dependent coefficient. Our aim is to design the coefficient in such a way that all solutions decay in time as fast as possible. We discover…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Marina Ghisi , Massimo Gobbino , Alain Haraux

In this paper, we prove the uniqueness of energy conservative Holder continuous weak solution to a general quasilinear wave equation by the analysis of characteristics. This result has no restriction on the size of solutions, i.e. it is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Hong Cai , Geng Chen , Yi Du , Yannan Shen

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

In this paper, we study the observability and controllability of wave equations coupled by first or zero order terms on a compact manifold. We adopt the approach in Dehman-Lebeau's paper \cite{DehmanLebeau09} to prove that: the weak…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Yan Cui , Camille Laurent , Zhiqiang Wang

We study the Cauchy problem for the semi-linear damped wave equation in any space dimension. We assume that the time-dependent damping term is effective. We prove the global existence of small energy data solutions in the supercritical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Marcello D'Abbicco , Sandra Lucente , Michael Reissig

In this paper we consider the local energy decay result for wave equations with a short-range potential. It is important to note that one never uses a finite speed of propagation property unlike the historical previous papers. The essential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Ryo Ikehata

In this paper, we consider the classical wave equation with time-dependent, spatially multiscale coefficients. We propose a fully discrete computational multiscale method in the spirit of the localized orthogonal decomposition in space with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Bernhard Maier , Barbara Verfürth

We consider a unique continuation problem for the wave equation given data in a volumetric subset of the space time domain. In the absence of data on the lateral boundary of the space-time cylinder we prove that the solution can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Erik Burman , Lauri Oksanen , Janosch Preuss , Ziyao Zhao

In this paper we analyse the Gevrey well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for weakly hyperbolic equations of general form with time-dependent coefficients. The results involve the order of lower order terms and the number of multiple roots.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-24 Claudia Garetto , Michael Ruzhansky

This paper is devoted to study exact controllability of two one-dimensional coupled wave equations with first-order coupling terms with coefficients depending on space and time. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for both exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Farid Ammar Khodja , Yacine Mokhtari

Variable-order time-fractional wave equations provide a flexible model for wave phenomena with evolving memory effects and anomalous temporal dynamics. Their numerical approximation is challenging because the variable-order fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lu Zhang

We study the Cauchy problem for the quasilinear wave equation $ \partial^2 _t u = u^{2a} \partial^2_x u + F(u) u_x $ with $a \geq 0$ and show a result for the local in time existence under new conditions. In the previous results, it is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Yuusuke Sugiyama

Here we study the wave propagation and stability of general relativistic non-resistive dissipative second-order magnetohydrodynamic equations in curved space-time. We solve the Boltzmann equation for a system of particles and antiparticles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-09 Ankit Kumar Panda , Victor Roy

In this paper we study the stability of the unique continuation in the case of the wave equation with variable coefficients independent of time. We prove a logarithmic estimate in a arbitrary domain of ${\mathbb R}^{n+1}$, where all the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Roberta Bosi , Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas

We analyze the wave equation in families of pp-wave geometries developing strong localized scale-invariant singularities in certain limits. For both cases of well-localized pp-waves and the so-called null-cosmologies, we observe an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-02 Oleg Evnin , Timothy Nguyen

We obtain a novel interior control result for wave equations on time dependent domains. This is done by deriving a suitable Carleman estimate and proving the corresponding observability inequality. We consider the wave equation with time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Vaibhav Kumar Jena

We discuss several classes of linear second order initial-boundary value problems, where damping terms appear in the main wave equation as well as in the dynamic boundary condition. We investigate their well-posedness and describe some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Delio Mugnolo

The concept of weak invariants is examined in the thermodynamic context. Discussions are made about the temporally-local equilibrium states, corrections to them, and isoenergetic processes based on the quantum master equations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-06 Congjie Ou , Sumiyoshi Abe

We consider the Cauchy problem for strictly hyperbolic $m$-th order partial differential equations with coefficients low-regular in time and smooth in space. It is well-known that the problem is $L^2$ well-posed in the case of Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Massimo Cicognani , Daniel Lorenz

We propose a new space-time variational formulation for wave equation initial-boundary value problems. The key property is that the formulation is coercive (sign-definite) and continuous in a norm stronger than $H^1(Q)$, $Q$ being the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Paolo Bignardi , Andrea Moiola