Title | Conservative Solutions to a Nonlinear Variational Wave Equation |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2006 |
Authors | Bressan, A, Yuxi, Z |
Journal | Comm. Math. Phys. 266 (2006) 471-497 |
Abstract | We establish the existence of a conservative weak solution to the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear variational wave equation $u_{tt} - c(u)(c(u)u_x)_x=0$, for initial data of finite energy. Here $c(\\\\cdot)$ is any smooth function with uniformly positive bounded values. |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2184 |
DOI | 10.1007/s00220-006-0047-8 |
Alternate Journal | Global Conservative Solutions to a Nonlinear Variational Wave Equation |
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