On determinism and well-posedness in multiple time dimensions

DOI10.1098/rspa.2009.0097zbMath1181.35140arXiv0812.0210MaRDI QIDQ3648641

Steven J. Weinstein, Walter Craig

Publication date: 27 November 2009

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0210

zbMATH Keywords

ultrahyperbolic equation; non-local constraint; arbitrary space-time signature; Asgeirsson's mean value theorem; higher codimension hypersurfaces; Holmgren-John uniqueness theorem; initial hypersurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35R25: Ill-posed problems for PDEs

35L15: Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations

35G10: Initial value problems for linear higher-order PDEs

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