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We consider co-rotational wave maps from (3+1) Minkowski space into the three-sphere. This is an energy supercritical model which is known to exhibit finite time blow up via self-similar solutions. The ground state self-similar solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Roland Donninger , Birgit Schoerkhuber , Peter C. Aichelburg

We consider the free boundary problem for a plasma--vacuum interface in ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Unlike the classical statement, where the vacuum magnetic field obeys the div-curl system of pre-Maxwell dynamics, we do not…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Paolo Secchi , Yuan Yuan

The Landau-Lifshitz form of the Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation in the presence of a plane wave of arbitrary shape and polarization is solved exactly and in closed form. The explicit solution is presented in the particular, paradigmatic…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-26 A. Di Piazza

Plane electromagnetic wave propagating in perfect electromagnetic conductor (PEMC) is considered. Its wave number has no connection with the frequency. An interface is introduced between an ordinary isotropic medium and PEMC. The wave in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernard Jancewicz

We give a classification of non-Abelian T-duals of the flat metric in D=4 dimensions with respect to the four-dimensional continuous subgroups of the Poincare group. After dualizing the flat background, we identify majority of dual models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-31 Ladislav Hlavaty , Ivo Petr

One-parameter families of exact two-component solitary-wave solutions for interacting high-frequency (HF) and low-frequency (LF) waves are found in the framework of Zakharov-type models, which couple the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-29 Gromov Evgeny , Malomed Boris

We study bright solitary waves of three dimensional trapped Bose-Einstein condensates and their collisions. For a single solitary wave, in addition to an upper critical number, we also find a {\em lower} cut-off, below which no stable state…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. G. Parker , A. M. Martin , S. L. Cornish , C. S. Adams

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

In this paper, we consider exterior problem of the critical semilinear wave equation in three space dimensions with variable coefficients and prove global existence of smooth solutions. Similar to the constant coefficients case, we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-08 Yi Zhou , Ning-An Lai

The aim of the article to clarify the status of Shapiro plane wave solutions of the Schr\"odinger's equation in the frames of the well-known general method of separation of variables. To solve this task, we use the well-known cylindrical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-01 E. M. Ovsiyuk , N. G. Tokarevskaya , V. M. Red'kov

We study the dynamics of the noncommutative fuid in the Snyder space perturbatively at the first order in powers of the noncommutative parameter. The linearized noncommutative fluid dynamics is described by a system of coupled linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-26 M. C. B. Abdalla , L. Holender , M. A. Santos , I. V. Vancea

We construct a plane symmetric, standing gravitational wave for a domain wall plus a massless scalar field. The scalar field can be associated with a fluid which has the properties of `stiff' matter, i.e. matter in which the speed of sound…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-26 Merab Gogberashvili , Shynaray Myrzakul , Douglas Singleton

Two methods are explained to exactly solve Maxwell's equations where permittivity, permeability and conductivity may vary in space. In the constitutive relations, retardation is regarded. If the material properties depend but on one…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-20 Ulrich Brosa

The features of propagation of intense waves are of great interest for theory and experiment in electrodynamics and acoustics. The behavior of nonlinear waves in a bounded volume is of especial importance and, at the same time, is an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 E. Yu. Petrov , A. V. Kudrin

We consider wave maps from $(1+d)$-dimensional Minkowski space, $d\geq3$, into rotationally symmetric manifolds which arise from small perturbations of the sphere $\mathbb S^d$. We prove the existence of co-rotational self-similar finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Roland Donninger , Birgit Schörkhuber , Alexander Wittenstein

We study the statics and dynamics of a stable, mobile, three-dimensional matter-wave spherical quantum ball created in the presence of an attractive two-body and a very small repulsive three-body interaction. The quantum ball can propagate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-20 S. K. Adhikari

In this article the static Einstein-Vlasov-Maxwell system is considered in spherical symmetry. This system describes an ensemble of charged particles interacting by general relativistic gravity and Coulomb forces. First, a proof for local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-09 Maximilian Thaller

We investigate the stability of plane wave solutions of equations describing quantum particles interacting with a complex environment. The models take the form of PDE systems with a non local (in space or in space and time) self-consistent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Thierry Goudon , Simona Rota Nodari

We study the existence of cylindrically symmetric electro-magneto-static solitary waves for a system of a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation coupled with Maxwell's equations in presence of a positive mass and of a nonnegative nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Dimitri Mugnai , Matteo Rinaldi

Using previously developed method of two-dimensional Laplace transform we obtain the characteristic equations k(\omega) for electromagnetic waves in low-collision fully ionized plasma of a plane geometry. We apply here a new, different from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Soshnikov