U(1) invariant membranes and singularities

DOI10.1007/S11785-008-0092-8MaRDI QIDQ841673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jens Hoppe

Publication date 18 September 2009

Published in Complex Analysis and Operator Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4738

zbMATH Keywords

relativistic membranesextremal hypersurfaces in Minkowski-space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G25) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

Abstract: A formulation of U(1) - symmetric classical membrane motions (preserving one rotational symmetry) is given, and reductions to systems of ODE's, as well as some ideas concerning singularities and integrability.

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