Strong solutions to a class of boundary value problems on a mixed Riemannian--Lorentzian metric

Antonella  Marini; Thomas H.  Otway

doi:10.3934/proc.2015.0801

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Strong solutions to a class of boundary value problems on a mixed Riemannian--Lorentzian metric

Antonella Marini^1, and
Thomas H. Otway^2,

1.
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila
2.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Yeshiva University, New York, NY 10033

Received: August 31, 2014

Revised: December 31, 2014

Published: October 2015

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A first-order elliptic-hyperbolic system in extended projective space is shown to possess strong solutions to a natural class of Guderley--Morawetz--Keldysh problems on a typical domain.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35M32; Secondary: 35Q75, 58J32.

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