Multidimensional riemann problem for smilinear wave equations

DOI10.1080/03605309208820861MaRDI QIDQ4030382zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shuxing Chen

Publication date 1 April 1993

Published in Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03605309208820861

zbMATH Keywords

propagation of singularitiesRiemann problemsemilinear wave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analyticity in context of PDEs (35A20) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70)

Review text

The author proves the local (in time) existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Riemann problem for a semilinear wave equation in two dimensions with the initial data consisted of four different constants in four quadrants, and displays the complicated structure of the singularities of the solution. It is shown that the singularity will appear in a light cone issuing from the origin, and propagates along all characteristic surfaces starting from the discontinuous lines of initial data as well. The proof of the local existence is based on a standard contraction mapping argument.

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