On the quasi-linear elliptic PDE - ( u/ 1-| u |^2) = 4 _k a_k _s_k in physics and geometry

DOI10.1007/S00220-012-1502-3zbMATH Open1253.35058arXiv1107.4126OpenAlexW3125269714WikidataQ114230974 ScholiaQ114230974MaRDI QIDQ453345FDOQ453345

Michael K.-H. Kiessling

Publication date: 19 September 2012

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

Abstract: It is shown that for each finite number of Dirac measures supported at points $s_n$ in three-dimensional Euclidean space, with given amplitudes $a_n$, there exists a unique real-valued Lipschitz function $u$, vanishing at infinity, which distributionally solves the quasi-linear elliptic partial differential equation of divergence form $-ablacdot(ablau/sqrt1-|ablau{|}^2)=4pisu{m}_{n=1}^N{a}_{n}delt{a}_{s_n}$. Moreover, $u$ is real analytic away from the $s_n$. The result can be interpreted in at least two ways: (a) for any number of point charges of arbitrary magnitude and sign at prescribed locations $s_n$ in three-dimensional Euclidean space there exists a unique electrostatic field which satisfies the Maxwell-Born-Infeld field equations smoothly away from the point charges and vanishes as $|s|oinfty$; (b) for any number of integral mean curvatures assigned to locations $s_n$ there exists a unique asymptotically flat, almost everywhere space-like maximal slice with point defects of Minkowski spacetime, having lightcone singularities over the $s_n$ but being smooth otherwise, and whose height function vanishes as $|s|oinfty$. No struts between the point singularities ever occur.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4126

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zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spacetimeelectrostatic fieldMaxwell-Born-Infeld field equationsquasi-linear elliptic partial differential equation of divergence form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasilinear elliptic equations (35J62) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60)

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