Characteristics and the geometry of hyperbolic equations in the plane

DOI10.1006/jdeq.1993.1064zbMath0797.35122OpenAlexW2093198632MaRDI QIDQ687500

Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date: 25 October 1993

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jdeq.1993.1064

zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy problemshock wavescharacteristicsnonlinear second order hyperbolic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70)

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