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Solutions to the wave equation on de Sitter-Schwarzschild space with smooth initial data on a Cauchy surface are shown to decay exponentially to a constant at temporal infinity, with corresponding uniform decay on the appropriately…
The inviscid barotropic quasi-geostrophic equation with a free surface is considered. The free surface mandates a non-standard boundary condition. The global existence existence and uniqueness of a weak solution is established, thanks to…
We show that there exist maximal globally hyperbolic solutions of the Einstein-dust equations which admit a constant mean curvature Cauchy surface, but are not covered by a constant mean curvature foliation.
An example of a solution branch of the three dimensional Euler equation Cauchy problem is constructed which develops a singular velocity component and a singular vorticity component after finite time for some data which have Hoelder…
The goal of this monograph is to prove that any solution of the Cauchy problem for the capillarity-gravity water waves equations, in one space dimension, with periodic, even in space, initial data of small size $\epsilon$, is almost…
We study a one-dimensional nonlinear hyperbolic-parabolic initial boundary value problem occurring in the theory of thermoelasticity. We prove existence and uniqueness of the local-in-time strong solution. Also, some global-in-time weak…
The Cauchy problem for two dimensional difference wave operators is considered with potentials and initial data supported in a bounded region. The large time asymptotic behavior of solutions is obtained. In contrast to the continuous case…
We analyze the initial value problem for spinor fields obeying the Dirac equation, with particular attention to the characteristic surfaces. The standard Cauchy initial value problem for first order differential equations is to construct a…
This paper is mainly concerned with the Cauchy problem for a generalized Camassa-Holm equation with analytic initial data. The analyticity of its solutions is proved in both variables, globally in space and locally in time. Then, we present…
The paper provides a direct proof the uniqueness of solutions to the Camassa-Holm equation, based on characteristics. Given a conservative solution $u=u(t,x)$, an equation is introduced which singles out a unique characteristic curve…
This paper concerns the Cauchy problem of the two-dimensional (2D) nonhomogeneous incompressible Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with vacuum as far field density. We establish the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to…
We show that the maximal globally hyperbolic solution of the initial-value problem for the higher-dimensional vacuum Einstein equations on two transversally intersecting characteristic hypersurfaces contains a future neighborhood of the…
For periodic initial data with initial density, we establish the global existence and uniqueness of strong and classical solutions for the two-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations with no restrictions on the size of initial data…
We consider (flat) Cauchy-complete GH spacetimes, i.e., globally hyperbolic flat lorentzian manifolds admitting some Cauchy hypersurface on which the ambient lorentzian metric restricts as a complete riemannian metric. We define a family of…
In this paper we shall analyse the structure of the Cauchy Problem (CP briefly) for General Relativity (GR briefly) by applying the theory of first order symmetric hyperbolic systems.
We consider the Cauchy problem in the Euclidean space for a doubly degenerate parabolic equation with a space-dependent exponential weight, roughly speaking of the type of the exponential of a power of the distance from the origin. We…
We consider the initial problem for the Navier-Stokes equations over ${\mathbb R}^3 \times [0,T]$ with a positive time $T$ over specially constructed scale of function spaces of Bochner-Sobolev type. We prove that the problem induces an…
Many results in mathematical relativity, including results for both the initial data problem and for the evolution problem, rely on the existence of a constant mean curvature (CMC) Cauchy surface in the underlying spacetime. However, it is…
We prove that any smooth vacuum spacetime containing a compact Cauchy horizon with surface gravity that can be normalised to a non-zero constant admits a Killing vector field. This proves a conjecture by Moncrief and Isenberg from 1983…
In $n \geq 1$ spatial dimensions, we study the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear transport equation coupled to a quasilinear symmetric hyperbolic subsystem of a rather general type. For an open set (relative to a suitable Sobolev topology)…