An example of a non-trivial, non-self-adjoint Huygens differential equation in four independent variables

DOI10.4171/ZAA/1562MaRDI QIDQ286647zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stephanie R. Czapor, Raymond G. Mclenaghan

Publication date 25 May 2016

Published in Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/zaa/1562

zbMATH Keywords

Hadamard's problemHuygens' principlenon-self-adjoint wave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45)

Review text

Summary: A family of non-trivial, essentially non-self-adjoint wave equations which satisfy Huygens' principle is given. It is constructed on a 4-dimensional Lorentzian space which is a product of two 2-dimensional spaces of constant curvature. Prior to this example, the only known non-trivial Huygens equation was the scalar wave equation on the exact plane wave spacetime as presented by Günther.

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