Conservation laws and symmetries of quasilinear radial wave equations in multi-dimensions

DOI10.1063/1.4711814zbMATH Open1277.35025arXiv1109.1719OpenAlexW1989380500MaRDI QIDQ2862897FDOQ2862897

Stephen C. Anco, Steven A. MacNaughton, Thomas Wolf

Publication date: 20 November 2013

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

Abstract: Symmetries and conservation laws are studied for two classes of physically and analytically interesting radial wave equations with power nonlinearities in multi-dimensions. The results consist of two main classifications: all symmetries of point type and all conservation laws of a general energy-momentum type are explicitly determined, including those such as dilations, inversions, similarity energies and conformal energies that exist only for special powers or dimensions. In particular, all variational cases (when a Lagrangian formulation exists) and non-variational cases (when no Lagrangian exists) for these wave equations are considered. As main results, the classification yields generalized energies and radial momenta in certain non-variational cases, which are shown to arise from a new type of Morawetz dilation identity that produces conservation laws for each of the two wave equations in a different way than Noether's theorem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1719

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zbMATH Keywords

power nonlinearitiesconservation laws of energy-momentum typesymmetries of point type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Axially symmetric solutions to PDEs (35B07) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70)

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