Weak solutions to a nonlinear variational wave equation with general data

Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 207-226

  Zhang, Ping ^a   Zheng, Yuxi ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Existence; Regularity; Renormalization; Wave equation; Young measure

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OSCILLATIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; THEOREM PROVING;

EXISTENCE; ORIENTATIONAL WAVES; POTENTIAL ENERGY DENSITY; REGULARITY; RENORMALIZATION; WAVE EQUATION; YOUNG MEASURE;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 13844308241     PISSN: 02941449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anihpc.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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