On the formation of shocks of electromagnetic plane waves in non-linear crystals

DOI10.1063/1.4960044zbMATH Open1348.78014arXiv1505.04101OpenAlexW1715386332MaRDI QIDQ2820872FDOQ2820872

Authors: Demetrios Christodoulou, Daniel Raoul Perez 

Publication date: 12 September 2016

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

Abstract: An influential result of F. John states that no genuinely non-linear strictly hyperbolic quasi-linear first order system of partial differential equations in two variables has a global $C^2$-solution for small enough initial data. Inspired by recent work of D. Christodoulou, we revisit John's original proof and extract a more precise description of the behaviour of solutions at the time of shock. We show that John's singular first order quantity, when expressed in characteristic coordinates, remains bounded until the final time, which is then characterised by an inverse density of characteristics tending to zero in one point. Moreover, we study the derivatives of second order, showing again their boundedness when expressed in appropriate coordinates. We also recover John's upper bound for the time of shock formation and complement it with a lower bound. Finally, we apply these results to electromagnetic plane waves in a crystal with no magnetic properties and cubic electric non-linearity in the energy density, assuming no dispersion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04101

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zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetic wavescharacteristic coordinatesshock wave solutionsnonlinear crystalsquasi-linear hyperbolic PDEs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71) Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic equations (35L03)

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