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This is the first of a series of papers devoted to the study of classical initial-boundary value problems of Dirichlet, Neumann and mixed type for the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the segment. Considering proper periodic…

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Emergent modified gravity presents a new class of gravitational theories in which the structure of space-time with Riemannian geometry of a certain signature is not presupposed. Relying on crucial features of a canonical formulation, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 Martin Bojowald , Erick I. Duque , Dennis Hartmann

We describe space--time fluctuations by means of small fluctuations of the metric on a given background metric. From a minimally coupled Klein--Gordon equation we obtain within a weak-field approximation up to second order and an averaging…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ertan Göklü , Claus Lämmerzahl

We investigate the Cauchy problem on the cylinder, namely the semi-periodic problem where there is periodicity in the $x$-direction and decay in the $y$-direction, for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili II equation by the inverse spectral transform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-21 P. Kalamvokas , V. G. Papageorgiou , A. S. Fokas , L. -Y. Sung

The characteristic initial boundary problem is discussed in spherical symmetry for the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field equations. It is formulated for an affine-null metric and the resulting field equations are cast into a hierarchical system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Thomas Mädler , Radouane Gannouji , Emanuel Gallo

An initial-boundary value problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions for three-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation is considered. Results on global existence, uniqueness and large-time decay of weak solutions in certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Andrei V. Faminskii

Initial-boundary value problems in a half-strip with different types of boundary conditions for two-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation are considered. Results on global well-posedness in classes of regular solutions in the cases of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Andrei Faminskii

The Klein-Gordon equation for a scalar field sourced by a static spherically symmetric background is an interesting second-order differential equation with applications in particle physics, astrophysics, and elsewhere. Here we present…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Peter B. Denton

We study initial-boundary value problems for linear evolution equations of arbitrary spatial order, subject to arbitrary linear boundary conditions and posed on a rectangular 1-space, 1-time domain. We give a new characterisation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 David A. Smith

We prove that the Schroedinger map initial-value problem is locally well-posed for small data in the Sobolev spaces $H^\sigma$, $\sigma>(d+1)/2$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexandru D. Ionescu Carlos E. Kenig

The issue of gauge invariances in the sigma model formalism is discussed at the free and interacting level. The problem of deriving gauge invariant interacting equations can be addressed using the proper time formalism. This formalism is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 B. Sathiapalan

In this paper we study the initial-value problem associated with the Benjamin-Ono-Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation. Such equation appears as a two-dimensional generalization of the Benjamin-Ono equation when transverse effects are included via…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Alysson Cunha , Ademir Pastor

A unified general approach is presented for construction of solutions of the characteristic initial value problems for various integrable hyperbolic reductions of Einstein's equations for space-times with two commuting isometries in General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 G. A. Alekseev

It has recently been shown that the classical electric and magnetic fields which satisfy the source-free Maxwell equations can be linearly mapped into the real and imaginary parts of a transverse-vector wave function which in consequence…

General Physics · Physics 2010-12-24 Steven Kenneth Kauffmann

We prove inclusion theorems for both spectra and essential spectra as well as two-sided bounds for isolated eigenvalues for Klein-Gordon type Hamiltonian operators. We first study operators of the form $JG$, where $J$, $G$ are selfadjoint…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 Ivica Nakić , Krešimir Veselić

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Ovid C. Jacob , Ronald J. Adler

We study the initial value problem for the wave equation and the ultrahyperbolic equation for data posed on initial surface of mixed signature (both spacelike and timelike). Under a nonlocal constraint, we show that the Cauchy problem on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Walter Craig , Steven Weinstein

In spite of its problems with interactions, the first-quantized Klein-Gordon equation is a satisfactory theory of free spinless particles. Moreover, the usual theory may be extended to describe Lorentz-violating behavior, of the same types…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Brett Altschul

We study the initial value problem in Einstein-Cartan theory which includes torsion and, therefore, a non-symmetric connection on the spacetime manifold. Generalizing the path of a classical theorem by Choquet-Bruhat and York for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Paulo Luz , Filipe C. Mena

In this paper we develop a finite-difference scheme to approximate radially symmetric solutions of the initial-value problem with smooth initial conditions in an open sphere around the origin, where the internal and external damping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-22 J. E. Macías-Díaz , A. Puri