Huygens' principle and hyperbolic equations
by
 
Günther, Paul, 1926-

Title
: 
Huygens' principle and hyperbolic equations

Author
: 
Günther, Paul, 1926-

ISBN
: 
9781483262222

Personal Author
: 
Günther, Paul, 1926-

Publication Information
: 
Boston : Academic Press, ©1988.

Physical Description
: 
1 online resource (lvii, 847 pages)

Series
: 
Perspectives in mathematics ; v. 5
 
Perspectives in mathematics ; v. 5.

Contents
: 
Front Cover; Huygens' Principle and Hyperbolic Equations; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I; 1. Normal domains; 2. The causal structure of space-times; 3. Vector bundles; 4. The wave equation for differential forms in non-euclidean spaces; 5. A spinor calculus; Notes and References; CHAPTER II. RIESZ DISTRIBUTIONS; 1. The Riesz distributions in the Minkowski space; 2. The Riesz distribution in curved space-times; 3. Some generalizations; Notes and References; CHAPTER III. THE FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS.
 
1. The Hadamard coefficients2. B-Series; 3. The fundamental solutions; 4. Applications of the fundamental solutions; 5. The Cauchv problem; Notes and References; CHAPTER IV. HUYGENS' OPERATORS; 1. Hadamard's Criterion; 2. Huygens' triples; 3. Diversors. General wave families; 4. Maxwell's equations. Dirac's equations; Notes and References; CHAPTER V. THE EULER-POISSON-DARBOUX EQUATION; 1. An Application of the Method of Descent; 2. The singular Cauchy problem; 3. Huygens' principle for the EPD-equation; 4. Stellmacher's equations.
 
5. Elliptic operators with vanishing first Hadamard coefficientAppendix (Proof of Theorem 5.13 (i)); 6. Relations to spectral geometry; Notes and References; CHAPTER VI. TRANSFORMATION THEORY; 1. The bundle connection associated to an operator P; 2. A property of the Hadamard coefficients; 3. Conformai gauge transformations of an operator P; 4. Tensors with simple transformation law; 5. The moments of a normal hyperbolic operator (even dimension); 6. The moments for Maxwell's equations; Notes and References.
 
CHAPTER VII. SOME THEOREMS ON HUYGENS' OPERATORS OVER FOUR-DIMENSIONAL SPACE-TIMES1. Some preparatory transformations; 2. The moments of order d"3; 3. Applications to Huygens' operators in a four-dimensional space-time; 4. The case of conformally flat metrics; Notes and References; CHAPTER VIII. PLANE WAVE MANIFOLDS AND HUYGENS' PRINCIPLE; 1. Introduction. Results; 2. pp- and plane wave manifolds; 3. Huygens' principle for plane wave manifolds; 4. A characterization of plane wave manifolds; 5. Some conformally invariant tensors; 6. Testing coefficients by pp-metrics.
 
7. Testing coefficients by metrics of constant curvatureNotes and References; TABLE I: Identities for the Weyl tensor; TABLE II: Moments of order d"4 in four dimensions; TABLE III: Some formulas for pp-metrics; TABLE IV: Some formulas for plane wave metrics; APPENDIX I: METRIC AND CURVATURE IN NORMAL COORDINATES; APPENDIX II: WEAK HUYGENS' OPERATORS By V. Wünsch; APPENDIX III: HUYGENS' PRINCIPLE FOR SPIN TENSOR EQUATIONS By V. Wünsch; INDEX; BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Subject Term
: 
Wave-motion, Theory of.
 
Huygens' principle.
 
Differential equations, Hyperbolic.
 
MATHEMATICS -- Calculus.
 
MATHEMATICS -- Mathematical Analysis.
 
Differential equations, Hyperbolic. (OCoLC)fst00893463
 
Huygens' principle. (OCoLC)fst00964454
 
Wave-motion, Theory of. (OCoLC)fst01172888

Genre
: 
Electronic books.

Electronic Access
: 
ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123073303


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