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This manuscript is a lightly reformatted version of my 2017 PhD thesis. I am posting it on arXiv at the request of my advisor, Sergiu Klainerman, who noted that it has been useful to some students. The content largely reflects the thesis in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 John Stogin

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

The present study describes, first, an efficient algorithm for computing capillary-gravity solitary waves solutions of the irrotational Euler equations with a free surface and, second, provides numerical evidences of the existence of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Didier Clamond , Denys Dutykh , Angel Duran

We study a class of localized solutions of the wave equation, called eigenwavelets, obtained by extending its fundamental solutions to complex spacetime in the sense of hyperfunctions. The imaginary spacetime variables y, which form a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerald Kaiser

Time-harmonic solutions to the wave equation can be computed in the frequency or in the time domain. In the frequency domain, one solves a discretized Helmholtz equation, while in the time domain, the periodic solutions to a discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Christiaan C. Stolk

We provide a definitive treatment, including sharp decay and the precise late-time asymptotic profile, for generic solutions of linear wave equations with a (singular) inverse-square potential in (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Dejan Gajic , Maxime Van de Moortel

We extend earlier numerical and analytical considerations of the conformally invariant wave equation on a Schwarzschild background from the case of spherically symmetric solutions, discussed in Class. Quantum Grav. 34, 045005 (2017), to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-23 Jörg Frauendiener , Jörg Hennig

We present both, theory and an algorithm for solving time-harmonic wave problems in a general setting. The time-harmonic solutions will be achieved by computing time-periodic solutions of the original wave equations. Thus, an exact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-23 Dirk Pauly , Tuomo Rossi

A characterization of causal automorphism on Minkowski spacetime is given by use of wave equation. The result shows that causal analysis of spacetime may be replaced by studies of wave equation on manifolds.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Do-Hyung Kim

We prove local unique solvability of the wave equation for a large class of weakly singular, locally bounded space-time metrics in a suitable space of generalised functions.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-11 James D. E. Grant , Eberhard Mayerhofer , Roland Steinbauer

We propose a spectral collocation method to approximate the exact boundary control of the wave equation in a square domain. The idea is to introduce a suitable approximate control problem that we solve in the finite-dimensional space of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Somia Boumimez , Carlos Castro

We study a space-time finite element approach for the nonhomogeneous wave equation using a continuous time Galerkin method. We present fully implicit examples in 1+1, 2+1, and 3+1 dimensions using linear quadrilateral, hexahedral, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Anderson , Jung-Han Kimn

The physical situation of the collision and subsequent interaction of plane gravitational waves in a Minkowski background gives rise to a well-posed characteristic initial value problem in which initial data are specified on the two null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. B. Griffiths , M. Santano-Roco

A new method of solution is proposed for solution of the wave equation in one space dimension with continuously-varying coefficients. By considering all paths along which information arrives at a given point, the solution is expressed as an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Jithin D. George , David I. Ketcheson , Randall J. LeVeque

With the example of the spherically symmetric scalar wave equation on Minkowski space-time we demonstrate that a fully pseudospectral scheme (i.e. spectral with respect to both spatial and time directions) can be applied for solving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-05 Jörg Hennig , Marcus Ansorg

We present a quantum algorithmic framework for simulating linear, anti-Hermitian (lossless) wave equations in heterogeneous, anisotropic, and time-independent media. This framework encompasses a broad class of wave equations, including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Cyrill Bösch , Malte Schade , Giacomo Aloisi , Scott D. Keating , Andreas Fichtner

The complex Helmholtz equation $(\Delta + k^2)u=f$ (where $k\in{\mathbb R},u(\cdot),f(\cdot)\in{\mathbb C}$) is a mainstay of computational wave simulation. Despite its apparent simplicity, efficient numerical methods are challenging to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Francisco Bernal , Xingyuan Chen , Goncalo dos Reis

We consider the collisions of plane gravitational and electromagnetic waves with distinct wavefronts and of arbitrary polarizations in a Minkowski background. We first present a new, completely geometric formulation of the characteristic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. A. Alekseev , J. B. Griffiths

It is known that there exist solutions with interfaces to various scalar nonlinear wave equations. In this paper, we look for solutions of a two-component system of nonlinear wave equations where one of the components has an interface and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Kyle Thompson

In classical continuum physics, a wave is a mechanical disturbance. Whether the disturbance is stationary or traveling and whether it is caused by the motion of atoms and molecules or the vibration of a lattice structure, a wave can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-14 Ivan C. Christov