On Complex-Valued Solutions to a Two-Dimensional Eikonal Equation. II. Existence Theorems

DOI10.1137/S0036141002400877zbMath1126.35367MaRDI QIDQ4429842

Giorgio Talenti, Rolando Magnanini

Publication date: 30 September 2003

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

minimizerscritical pointsBäcklund transformationsviscosity solutionsvariational solutionsfree boundariesconvex functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Regularity of solutions in optimal control (49N60) First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Geometric optics (78A05)

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