Harmonic fields on the extended projective disk and a problem in optics

DOI10.1063/1.2098529zbMATH Open1111.35012arXivmath-ph/0412072OpenAlexW2131046751MaRDI QIDQ3438680FDOQ3438680

Authors: Thomas H. Otway 

Publication date: 16 May 2007

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

Abstract: The Hodge equations for 1-forms are studied on Beltrami's projective disc model for hyperbolic space. Ideal points lying beyond projective infinity arise naturally in both the geometric and analytic arguments. An existence theorem for weakly harmonic 1-fields, changing type on the unit circle, is derived under Dirichlet conditions imposed on the non-characteristic portion of the boundary. A similar system arises in the analysis of wave motion near a caustic. A class of elliptic-hyperbolic boundary-value problems is formulated for those equations as well. For both classes of boundary-value problems, an arbitrarily small lower-order perturbation of the equations is shown to yield solutions which are strong in the sense of Friedrichs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0412072

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) PDEs of mixed type (35M10)

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