Complex-distance potential theory and hyperbolic equations

Publication date 11 September 2001

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9908031

complex distance generalization of Clifford analysis hyperbolic Dirac equation Maxwell equations

Functions of hypercomplex variables and generalized variables (30G35) Other generalizations (nonlinear potential theory, etc.) (31C45) Second-order hyperbolic equations (35L10)

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By continuing the Euclidean distance \(r(x)=\sqrt{(x^2)}\) holomorphically to a complex distance \(\gamma(z)=\sqrt{(z^2)}\) in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) the author constructs a ``complex distance potential theory in \(\mathbb{C}^n\) by substituting the fundamental solution of the Laplacian \(\frac{1}{\omega_n}\frac{r^{2-n}}{2-n}\) by \(\phi(z)=\frac{1}{\omega_n}\frac{\gamma^{2-n}}{2-n}\). This results in the Dirac distribution \(\delta(x)\) being replaced by an extended source distribution \(\widetilde\delta(z)\), formally defined by \(\widetilde\delta(z)=\Delta\phi(z)\), and a new connection between elliptic and hyperbolic equations that does not assume analyticity of the Cauchy data. Finally, a generalization of Clifford analysis is given which induces a connection between solutions of elliptic and hyperbolic Dirac equations. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0945.00020].

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