Boundary conditions for coupled quasilinear wave equations with application to isolated systems

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0788-2zbMATH Open1172.35077arXiv0807.3207OpenAlexW2031464756MaRDI QIDQ2391133FDOQ2391133

Authors: O. Reula, Olivier Sarbach, Jeffrey Winicour, Heinz-Otto Kreiss 

Publication date: 24 July 2009

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the initial-boundary value problem for systems of quasilinear wave equations on domains of the form $[0,T]imesSigma$, where $Sigma$ is a compact manifold with smooth boundaries $partialSigma$. By using an appropriate reduction to a first order symmetric hyperbolic system with maximal dissipative boundary conditions, well posedness of such problems is established for a large class of boundary conditions on $partialSigma$. We show that our class of boundary conditions is sufficiently general to allow for a well posed formulation for different wave problems in the presence of constraints and artificial, nonreflecting boundaries, including Maxwell's equations in the Lorentz gauge and Einstein's gravitational equations in harmonic coordinates. Our results should also be useful for obtaining stable finite-difference discretizations for such problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3207

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zbMATH Keywords

compact manifoldMaxwell's equationsLorentz gaugequasilinear wave equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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