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Questions about partial differential equations of hyperbolic type. Often used in combination with the top-level tag ap.analysis-of-pdes.

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reference request : "Solutions in the large for nonlinear hyperbolic systems of equations"

It is sometimes referred to as "Glimm's existence theorem". Though in some ways the proof is "more famous" than the theorem, and is frequently referred to as "Glimm's difference scheme". Not that I …
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Vlasov Poisson: linear momentum conservation

It helps to consider components of $q$, in order to keep the notations clear. From what you have we can write $$ q_i'(t) = \int v_i \sum_{j} \nabla_{x_j} \phi \nabla_{v_j} f ~\mathrm{d}x ~\mathrm{d} …
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the energy of scattering solution of cubic Klein-Gordon equation in $n=3$?

Step 1: assuming scattering, there exists a solution $v$ to the linear Klein-Gordon equation such that $u-v \to 0$ in $H^1(\mathbb{R}^3)$ as $t \to \infty$. By Sobolev embedding this means that for an …
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Maximum principle for hyperbolic PDEs

Fundamentally, the classical maximum principles for second order elliptic PDEs are based on the simple facts that The Hessian of a function at a local maximum is positive semidefinite. The full contr …
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Reference request for the focussing example

The example is almost trivial. For argument sake fix the number of spatial dimensions to be 3. If you consider radially symmetric solutions to the wave equation, one observes that if $$ u_{tt} = u_{ …
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Why don't we study hyperbolic equations as elliptic and parabolic equations?

Why we do not study such estimates for hyperbolic equations? Because they are false. Now: you may ask "why are they false?" This is a fairly deep question, and answers often involve discussion of p …
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Wave equation in $ \Omega\times(0,T) $

Strichartz estimates on domains is a difficult problem! First: on bounded domains you cannot have any global in time Strichartz estimates. This is because of the presence of standing waves. (Set initi …
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Finite speed propagation by finite energy method

For an equation that is actually hyperbolic, this is well-known. Here are some classical references: Lars Garding, Cauchy's Problem for Hyperbolic Equations (1958) Jean Leray, Hyperbolic Differenti …
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Maxwell-Klein-Gordon energy estimates in Klainerman and Machedon's 1994 paper

There is a typo in the paper. Look at the bottom two lines of page 22 which I transcribe here \begin{align} \|\phi\|_{L^3} & \leq \ldots \\ & \lesssim \mathscr{I}_0^{1/2} (1+t)^{1/2} ( \mathscr{I}_ …
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Existence of a solution for a quasilinear hyperbolic system of PDEs with many state variables

Okay, so I would write your equations instead in the following form: $$ \partial_t u_i + v_i(t) \cdot \nabla u_i = b_i (t, \vec{x}, \vec{u}) $$ This is a system of transport equations and so can actua …
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Advection equation regularity (2D and time independent)

The problem is that your boundary conditions are incompatible with your equation. Your choice of boundary data implies that, were $u$ to be in $C^1([0,1]\times[0,1])$ (meaning that the derivative ex …
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The time when a quasi-linear hyperbolic system produces shocks

If you just want to have a lower-bound on the time of classical existence, it is not too hard, though the answer will be not as sharp as the case of the Burgers' equation. We will assume that $f_n$ …
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Conservated quantity and hyperbolic equation

The "one phrase answer" is "divergence theorem". Slightly wordier but a bit formally (for ease of typing I write $dz = dx~dv$ for the volume on phase space) $$ \partial_t \int f^p dz = \int \partial …
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Preservation of metric signature in Cauchy problem for the Einstein equations

The dynamic metric is the metric for the quasidiagonal system; and so for self consistency the solution can only be proven to exist (and be unique) when the metric (i.e. the solution itself) is hyper …
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Assumptions on the flux of a conservation law required to obtain an entropy inequality

I just quickly read the proof you mentioned, and I think what is meant is following: Note that in Section 4.3 it is noted that any weak solution $U$ may be renormalized to be a continuous (in weak* t …
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