The wave equation with a discontinuous coefficient depending on time only: generalized solutions and propagation of singularities

DOI10.1007/978-3-0348-0585-8_18MaRDI QIDQ4914482zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hideo Geguchi, Günther Hörmann, Michael Oberguggenberger

Publication date 12 April 2013

Published in Pseudo-Differential Operators, Generalized Functions and Asymptotics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1134

zbMATH Keywords

transmission problempiecewise constant coefficientdelta function initial data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularity in context of PDEs (35A21) Wave equation (35L05) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) PDEs with low regular coefficients and/or low regular data (35R05) Generalized functions for nonlinear analysis (Rosinger, Colombeau, nonstandard, etc.) (46F30)

Abstract: This paper is devoted to the investigation of propagation of singularities in hyperbolic equations with non-smooth oefficients, using the Colombeau theory of generalized functions. As a model problem, we study the Cauchy problem for the one-dimensional wave equation with a discontinuous coefficient depending on time. After demonstrating the existence and uniqueness of generalized solutions in the sense of Colombeau to the problem, we investigate the phenomenon of propagation of singularities, arising from delta function initial data, for the case of a piecewise constant coefficient. We also provide an analysis of the interplay between singularity strength and propagation effects. Finally, we show that in case the initial data are distributions, the Colombeau solution to the model problem is associated with the piecewise distributional solution of the corresponding transmission problem.

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