The helically-reduced wave equation as a symmetric-positive system

DOI10.1063/1.1623930MaRDI QIDQ4833236zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. G. Torre

Publication date 14 December 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0309008, https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/physics_facpub/26

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Wave equation (35L05)

Abstract: Motivated by the partial differential equations of mixed type that arise in the reduction of the Einstein equations by a helical Killing vector field, we consider a boundary value problem for the helically-reduced wave equation with an arbitrary source in 2+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The reduced equation is a second-order partial differential equation which is elliptic inside a disk and hyperbolic outside the disk. We show that the reduced equation can be cast into symmetric-positive form. Using results from the theory of symmetric-positive differential equations, we show that this form of the helically-reduced wave equation admits unique, strong solutions for a class of boundary conditions which include Sommerfeld conditions at the outer boundary.

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