Relationships between various characterizations of wave tails

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/21/033zbMATH Open0845.35126arXivmath-ph/0002026OpenAlexW3101147783WikidataQ62501265 ScholiaQ62501265MaRDI QIDQ4874899FDOQ4874899

Luca Bombelli, Sebastiano Sonego

Publication date: 28 April 1996

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: One can define several properties of wave equations that correspond to the absence of tails in their solutions, the most common one by far being Huygens' principle. Not all of these definitions are equivalent, although they are sometimes assumed to be. We analyse this issue in detail for linear scalar waves, establishing some relationships between the various properties. Huygens' principle is almost always equivalent to the characteristic propagation property, and in two spacetime dimensions the latter is equivalent to the zeroth order progressing wave propagation property. Higher order progressing waves in general do have tails, and do not seem to admit a simple physical characterisation, but they are nevertheless useful because of their close association with exactly solvable two-dimensional equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0002026

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zbMATH Keywords

Huygens' principle propagation property higher-order progressing waves zeroth-order progressing-wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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