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This brief note wants to bring to attention that the formulation of physically reasonable initial-boundary value problems for wave equations in Lorentzian space-times is not unique, i.e., that there are inequivalent such formulations that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-20 Horst Reinhard Beyer

We construct an explicit solution of the Cauchy initial value problem for the n-dimensional Schroedinger equation with certain time-dependent Hamiltonian operator of a modified oscillator. The dynamical SU(1,1) symmetry of the harmonic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria Meiler , Ricardo Cordero-Soto , Sergei K. Suslov

We consider the Einstein-Maxwell system as a Cauchy initial value problem taking the electric and magnetic fields as independent variables. Maxwell's equations in curved spacetimes are derived in detail using a 3+1 formalism and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-29 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Carlos Degollado , Marcelo Salgado

The Cauchy+characteristic matching (CCM) problem for the scalar wave equation is investigated in the background geometry of a Schwarzschild black hole. Previously reported work developed the CCM framework for the coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Philippos Papadopoulos , Pablo Laguna

We consider an approach to the hyperboloidal evolution problem based on the Einstein equations written for a rescaled metric. It is shown that a conformal scale factor can be freely prescribed a priori in terms of coordinates in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Anil Zenginoglu

Computational techniques which establish the stability of an evolution-boundary algorithm for a model wave equation with shift are incorporated into a well-posed version of the initial-boundary value problem for gravitational theory in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Maria C. Babiuc , Bela Szilagyi , Jeffrey Winicour

It is shown that the axial and polar perturbations of the spherically symmetric black hole can be described in a gauge-invariant way. The reduced phase space describing gravitational waves outside of the horizon is described by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Jacek Jezierski

We investigate a general parabolic initial-boundary value problem with zero Cauchy data in some anisotropic H\"ormander inner product spaces. We prove that the operators corresponding to this problem are isomorphisms between appropriate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Valerii Los , Vladimir A. Mikhailets , Aleksandr A. Murach

These lecture notes, based on a course given at the Zurich Clay Summer School (June 23-July 18, 2008), review our current mathematical understanding of the global behaviour of waves on black hole exterior backgrounds. Interest in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-03 Mihalis Dafermos , Igor Rodnianski

We study the Cauchy problem for classical and weak shock-forming solutions to a model quasilinear wave equation in $1+1$ dimensions arising from a convenient choice of $C^{\infty}$ initial data, which allows us to solve the equation using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Leonardo Abbrescia , Pieter Blue , Jan Sbierski , Jared Speck

The global regularity problem for the Boussinesq system is a well known open problem in mathematical fluid dynamics. As a follow up to our work \cite{EJSI}, we give examples of finite-energy and Lipschitz continuous velocity field and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Tarek M. Elgindi , In-Jee Jeong

We study the initial value problem for the wave maps defined on the cyclic spacetime with the target Riemannian manifold that is responsive (see definition of the self coherence structure) to the parametric resonance phenomena. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Karen Yagdjian , Anahit Galstian , Nathalie M. Luna-Rivera

We study the Cauchy problem for multi-dimensional compressible radiation hydrodynamics equations with vacuum. First, we present some sufficient conditions on the blow-up of smooth solutions in multi-dimensional space. Then, we obtain the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Yachun Li , Shengguo Zhu

For an arbitrary strong, spherically symmetric super-horizon curvature perturbation, we present analytical solutions of the Einstein equations in terms of asymptotic expansion over the ratio of the Hubble radius to the length-scale of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 A. G. Polnarev , Tomohiro Nakama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Starting from Post-Newtonian predictions for a system of $N$ infalling masses from the infinite past, we formulate and solve a scattering problem for the system of linearised gravity around Schwarzschild as introduced in [DHR19]. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Lionor Kehrberger , Hamed Masaood

The Cauchy problem for the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equation is globally well-posed for smooth initial data. In this paper, we show that for a dense $G_\delta$ set of initial data, the solutions lose regularity in infinite time,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Thomas Alazard , Ayman Rimah Said

In this paper, we discuss the Cauchy Problem for the compressible isentropic Euler-Boltzmann equations with vacuum in radiation hydrodynamics. Firstly, we establish the local existence of regular solutions by the fundamental methods in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Yachun Li , Shengguo Zhu

We consider the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the whole space. After introducing a weaker concept of finite speed of propagation, we show that the concatenation of initial data gives rise to solutions whose time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Simão Correia

We consider the inverse problem for the wave equation which consists of determining an unknown space-dependent force function acting on a vibrating structure from Cauchy boundary data. Since only boundary data are used as measurements, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-24 S. O. Hussein , D. Lesnic

We investigate the long-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the KdV equation, focusing on the evolution of the radiant wave associated with a Wigner-von Neumann (WvN) resonance induced by the initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Alexei Rybkin