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Main Authors: Abalos, Fernando, Reula, Oscar, Hilditch, David
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18286
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author Abalos, Fernando
Reula, Oscar
Hilditch, David
author_facet Abalos, Fernando
Reula, Oscar
Hilditch, David
contents Systems of PDEs comprised of a combination of constraints and evolution equations are ubiquitous in physics. For both theoretical and practical reasons, such as numerical integration, it is desirable to have a systematic understanding of the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for these systems. Presently we review the use of hyperbolic reductions, in which the evolution equations are singled out for consideration. We then examine in greater detail the extensions, in which constraints are evolved as auxiliary variables alongside the original variables. Assuming a particular structure of the original system, we give sufficient conditions for strong-hyperbolicity of an extension. This theory is then applied to the examples of electromagnetism and a toy for magnetohydrodynamics.
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spellingShingle Hyperbolic extensions of constrained PDEs
Abalos, Fernando
Reula, Oscar
Hilditch, David
Analysis of PDEs
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Systems of PDEs comprised of a combination of constraints and evolution equations are ubiquitous in physics. For both theoretical and practical reasons, such as numerical integration, it is desirable to have a systematic understanding of the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for these systems. Presently we review the use of hyperbolic reductions, in which the evolution equations are singled out for consideration. We then examine in greater detail the extensions, in which constraints are evolved as auxiliary variables alongside the original variables. Assuming a particular structure of the original system, we give sufficient conditions for strong-hyperbolicity of an extension. This theory is then applied to the examples of electromagnetism and a toy for magnetohydrodynamics.
title Hyperbolic extensions of constrained PDEs
topic Analysis of PDEs
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18286