The Cauchy Problem for the Wave Equation with Distribution Data: an Elementary Approach

DOI10.2307/2323855zbMath0752.35032OpenAlexW1998227453MaRDI QIDQ3983925

Calvin H. Wilcox

Publication date: 27 June 1992

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2323855

zbMATH Keywords

existenceuniquenessdistribution solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15)

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