The Fourier transform and the wave equation

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.118.07.599zbMATH Open1228.42013arXiv0904.3252OpenAlexW2964313569WikidataQ58121500 ScholiaQ58121500MaRDI QIDQ3174573FDOQ3174573

Authors: Alberto Torchinsky 

Publication date: 17 October 2011

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We solve the Cauchy problem for the $n$-dimensional wave equation using elementary properties of the Fourier transform.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3252

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zbMATH Keywords

Fourier transformCauchy problemwave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42B10)

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