Time-like minimal submanifolds as singular limits of nonlinear wave equations

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2009.12.004zbMath1190.35022arXiv0811.3741OpenAlexW2019424358MaRDI QIDQ2268964

Giandomenico Orlandi, Giovanni Bellettini, Matteo Novaga

Publication date: 15 March 2010

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3741

zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spaceBorn-Infeld equationsharp interfacelimit double-well potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71)

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