The Dirichlet problem for elliptic-hyperbolic equations of Keldysh type

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The Dirichlet problem for elliptic-hyperbolic equations of Keldysh type

Thomas H. Otway

(Lecture notes in mathematics, 2043)

Springer, c2012

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Partial differential equations of mixed elliptic-hyperbolic type arise in diverse areas of physics and geometry, including fluid and plasma dynamics, optics, cosmology, traffic engineering, projective geometry, geometric variational theory, and the theory of isometric embeddings. And yet even the linear theory of these equations is at a very early stage. This text examines various Dirichlet problems which can be formulated for equations of Keldysh type, one of the two main classes of linear elliptic-hyperbolic equations. Open boundary conditions (in which data are prescribed on only part of the boundary) and closed boundary conditions (in which data are prescribed on the entire boundary) are both considered. Emphasis is on the formulation of boundary conditions for which solutions can be shown to exist in an appropriate function space. Specific applications to plasma physics, optics, and analysis on projective spaces are discussed. (From the preface)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Mathematical Preliminaries.- 3 The Equation of Cinquini-Cibrario.- 4 The Cold Plasma Model.- 5 Light near a Caustic.- 6 Projective Geometry.

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