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The Cauchy problem for harmonic maps from Minkowski space with its standard flat metric to a certain non-constant curvature Lorentzian 2-metric is studied. The target manifold is distinguished by the fact that the Euler-Lagrange equation…

We obtain a decay estimate for solutions to the linear dispersive equation $iu_t-(-\Delta)^{1/4}u=0$ for $(t,x)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}$. This corresponds to a factorization of the linearized water wave equation…

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…

For a class of weakly hyperbolic systems of the form D_t - A(t,x,D_x), where A(t,x,D_x) is a first-order pseudodifferential operator whose principal symbol degenerates like t^{l_*} at time t=0, for some integer l_* \geq 1, well-posedness of…

We consider the Cauchy problem for the scalar wave equation in the Kerr geometry for smooth initial data supported outside the event horizon. We prove that the solutions decay in time in L^\infty_loc. The proof is based on a representation…

We give a proof for the existence of a weak solution on the initial-value problem of a non-linear damped propagation

We consider the Cauchy problem for the wave equation in $\Omega\times{\mathbb R}$ with data given on some part of the boundary $\partial\Omega\times{\mathbb R}$. We provide a reconstruction algorithm for this problem based on analytic…

We consider an evolution equation with the regularized fractional derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with respect to the time variable, and a uniformly elliptic operator with variable coefficients acting in the spatial variables.…

In this paper, the existence, the uniqueness and estimates of solution to the integral Cauchy problem for linear and nonlinear abstract wave equations are proved. The equation includes a linear operator A defined in a Banach space E, in…

We are interested in studying the Cauchy problem for a weakly coupled system of semi-linear $\sigma$-evolution equations with frictional damping. The main purpose of this paper is two-fold. We would like to not only prove the global (in…

Relying on the analysis of characteristics, we prove the uniqueness of conservative solutions to the variational wave equation $u_{tt}-c(u) (c(u)u_x)_x=0$. Given a solution $u(t,x)$, even if the wave speed $c(u)$ is only H\"older continuous…

This paper studies the Cauchy problem for variable coefficient weakly hyperbolic first order systems of partial differential operators. The hyperbolicity assumption is that for each $t, x$ the principal symbol is hyperbolic. No hypothesis…

We establish the existence of weak solutions $u$ of the semilinear wave equation $\partial_t^2 u-\textrm{div}_x(a(t,x)\nabla_xu)=f_k(u)$ where $a(t,x)$ is equal to $1$ outside a compact set with respect to $x$ and a non-linear term $f_k$…

We consider the Cauchy problem for one-dimensional p-system with damping of space-dependent coefficient. This system models the compressible flow through porous media in the Lagrangean coordinate. Our concern is an asymptotic behavior of…

For the non-local space-time reaction-diffusion equation involving fractional $p$-Laplacian \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \frac{\partial^{\alpha }u}{\partial t^{\alpha }}+(-\Delta)_{p}^{s} u=\mu u^{2}(1-kJ*u)-\gamma…

We investigate the Cauchy problem for a 2x2-system of weakly coupled semi-linear fractional wave equations with polynomial nonlinearities posed in R+ x RN. Under appropriate conditions on the exponents and the fractional orders of the time…

This paper is concerned with the large time behavior of the solution to the Cauchy problem for the elastic wave equations. In particular, optimal $L^{2}$ estimates of the elastic waves are obtained in the sense that the upper and lower…

In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem for the semilinear damped wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u + u_t = h(u);\qquad u(0;x) = f(x); \quad u_t(0;x) = g(x);$ where $h(s) = |s|^{1+2/n}\mu(|s|)$. Here n is the space dimension and $\mu$ is…

This manuscript studies some qualitative properties of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the viscous Moore-Gibson-Thompson (MGT) equation. For one thing, by applying the WKB analysis and diagonalization procedure, we derive some $L^p-L^q$…

We prove local existence and uniqueness of the Cauchy problem for a large class of tensorial second order linear hyperbolic partial differential equations with coefficients of low regularity in a suitable class of generalized functions.