Time regularity of the solutions to second order hyperbolic equations

We consider the Cauchy problem for a second order weakly hyperbolic equation, with coefficients depending only on the time variable. We prove that if the coefficients of the equation belong to the Gevrey class g^s₀\gamma^{s_{0}} and the Cauchy data belong to g^s₁\gamma^{s_{1}}, then the Cauchy problem has a solution in  g^s₀([0,T^*];g^s₁(\mathbbR))\gamma^{s_{0}}([0,T^{*}];\gamma^{s_{1}}(\mathbb{R})) for some T ^*>0, provided 1≤s ₁≤2−1/s ₀. If the equation is strictly hyperbolic, we may replace the previous condition by 1≤s ₁≤s ₀.     

Representation of solutions of second order one-dimensional model hyperbolic equations

We study the Fourier-Walsh spectrum \(\{ \widehat \mu (S);S \subset \{ 1, \ldots n\} \} \) of the Moebius function µ restricted to {0, 1, 2, …, 2ⁿ ? 1} ? {0, 1}ⁿ and prove that it is not captured by levels \(\{ \widehat \mu (S):|S| < \rho n\} \), with ρ a sufficiently small constant. This improves the author’s earlier result in [B2].     

Circulant preconditioners for second order hyperbolic equations

Linear systems arising from implicit time discretizations and finite difference space discretizations of second-order hyperbolic equations in two dimensions are considered. We propose and analyze the use of circulant preconditioners for the solution of linear systems via preconditioned iterative methods such as the conjugate gradient method. Our motivation is to exploit the fast inversion of circulant systems with the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). For second-order hyperbolic equations with initial and Dirichlet boundary conditions, we prove that the condition number of the preconditioned system is ofO() orO(m), where is the quotient between the time and space steps andm is the number of interior gridpoints in each direction. The results are extended to parabolic equations. Numerical experiments also indicate that the preconditioned systems exhibit favorable clustering of eigenvalues that leads to a fast convergence rate.     

On second order weakly hyperbolic equations with oscillating coefficients and regularity loss of the solutions

Regularity of the solution for the wave equation with constant propagation speed is conserved with respect to time, but such a property is not true in general if the propagation speed is variable with respect to time. The main purpose of this paper is to describe the order of regularity loss of the solution due to the variable coefficient by the following four properties of the coefficient: “smoothness”, “oscillations”, “degeneration” and “stabilization”. Actually, we prove the Gevrey and C^∞ well‐posedness for the wave equations with degenerate coefficients taking into account the interactions of these four properties. Moreover, we prove optimality of these results by constructing some examples (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Theory of degenerate second order hyperbolic equations

Yakutsk. Translated from Sibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 68–75, March–April, 1990.     

On a class of second order Fuchsian hyperbolic equations

Summary We study a class of second order Fuchsian hyperbolic operators. The well-posedness of the Cauchy problem in a space of regular distributions is proved, together with results on the propagation of singularities of the solution. Moreover we give a representation formula for the distribution solutions of the homogeneous equation.     

Global existence for the one-dimensional second order semilinear hyperbolic equations

The aim of the paper is to study necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of the global solution of the one-dimensional semilinear equation appearing in the boundary value problems of gas dynamics. We investigate the Cauchy problem for such equation in the domain where the operator is weakly hyperbolic. We obtain the necessary condition for the existence of the self-similar solutions for the semilinear Gellerstedt-type equation. The approach used in the paper is based on the fundamental solution of the linear Gellerstedt operator and the Lp-Lq estimates.     

Asymptotics of the fundamental solution of the cauchy problem for a hyperbolic equation of second order containing a large parameter

An asymptotic expansion of the fundamental solution of the Cauchy problem for a linear hyperbolic equation containing a large parameter is constructed in this paper. The coefficients of the equation are assumed to be infinitely differentiable. The expansion obtained admits termwise differentiation.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 104, pp. 93–101, 1981.The author wishes to thank V. M. Babich for posing the problem and for his constant attention to the work.     

Anti-periodic solutions for second order differential equations

By using the bilinear form and the Leray-Schauder principle, we prove the new anti-periodic existence results for second order differential equations.     

Oscillatory properties for semilinear degenerate hyperbolic equations of second order

We consider three kind of oscillatory properties of the solutions to semilinear degenerate hyperbolic equations. Several sufficient conditions for the oscillation or non-oscillation are presented. In particular, they give us the positivity of the solutions for semilinear hyperbolic equations degenerating at initial point in one space dimension. Moreover we establish a few oscillatory conditions for the solutions of the mixed problem reduced to in one space dimension.     

First Darboux problem for nonlinear hyperbolic equations of second order

We study the first Darboux problem for hyperbolic equations of second order with power nonlinearity. We consider the question of the existence and nonexistence of global solutions to this problem depending on the sign of the parameter before the nonlinear term and the degree of its nonlinearity. We also discuss the question of local solvability of the problem.     

On energy estimates for second order hyperbolic equations with Levi conditions for higher order regularity

We consider energy estimates for second order homogeneous hyperbolic equations with time dependent coefficients. The property of energy conservation, which holds in the case of constant coefficients, does not hold in general for variable coefficients; in fact, the energy can be unbounded as t → ∞ in this case. The conditions to the coefficients for the generalized energy conservation (GEC), which is an equivalence of the energy uniformly with respect to time, has been studied precisely for wave type equations, that is, only the propagation speed is variable. However, it is not true that the same conditions to the coefficients conclude (GEC) for general homogeneous hyperbolic equations. The main purpose of this paper is to give additional conditions to the coefficients which provide (GEC); they will be called as C ^k -type Levi conditions due to the essentially same meaning of usual Levi condition for the well-posedness of weakly hyperbolic equations.     

The Cauchy problem for nonstrictly second order hyperbolic equations with nonregular coefficients

In this paper we consider the Cauchy problem for the equation , where the matrix {a _jk(x)} is non-negative, and the first derivatives of the coefficients have a singularity of orderq≥3 att=T>0; under these assumptions, the Cauchy problem is well-posed in all Gevrey classes of indexs<q/(q−1).