An introduction to well-posedness and free-evolution

DOI10.1142/S0217751X13400150zbMATH Open1277.35230arXiv1309.2012MaRDI QIDQ2866871FDOQ2866871

Authors: David Hilditch 

Publication date: 9 December 2013

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: These lecture notes accompany two classes given at the NRHEP2 school. In the first lecture I introduce the basic concepts used for analyzing well-posedness, that is the existence of a unique solution depending continuously on given data, of evolution partial differential equations. I show how strong hyperbolicity guarantees well-posedness of the initial value problem. Symmetric hyperbolic systems are shown to render the initial boundary value problem well-posed with maximally dissipative boundary conditions. I discuss the Laplace-Fourier method for analyzing the initial boundary value problem. Finally I state how these notions extend to systems that are first order in time and second order in space. In the second lecture I discuss the effect that the gauge freedom of electromagnetism has on the PDE status of the initial value problem. I focus on gauge choices, strong-hyperbolicity and the construction of constraint preserving boundary conditions. I show that strongly hyperbolic pure gauges can be used to build strongly hyperbolic formulations. I examine which of these formulations is additionally symmetric hyperbolic and finally demonstrate that the system can be made boundary stable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2012

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zbMATH Keywords

initial value problemMaxwell equationsinitial boundary value problemgauge freedomstrong hyperbolicitysymmetric hyperbolicityLaplace-Fourier method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fourier integral operators applied to PDEs (35S30) Laplace transform (44A10) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) First-order hyperbolic equations (35L02) Initial-boundary value problems for first-order hyperbolic equations (35L04) Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic equations (35L03)

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