A particle limit for the wave equation with a variable wave speed

DOI10.1002/cpa.3160370106zbMath0509.35050OpenAlexW2054164602MaRDI QIDQ4746925

George A. Hagedorn

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.3160370106

zbMATH Keywords

geometrical opticsshort wavelength solutionsspatially localized pulses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Geometric optics (78A05) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47)

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