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Quasilinear Systems in One Space Dimension

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Blowup for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations

Part of the book series: Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications ((PNLDE,volume 17))

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We will consider here quasilinear N × N systems of the form

$$ {\partial _t}u + A\left( u \right)\partial xu = 0, $$
(1.1)

or rotationally invariant wave equations of the form

$$ \partial _t^2u - {c^2}\left( {{\partial _t}u} \right)\Delta u = 0 $$
(1.2)

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  • Most of the material in this chapter is due to F. John [Jo2], [Jo4], [Jo6], though the presentation here follows closely L. Hörmander [Hö2].

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  • The generalities of Section 1, 2 and Section 4 come from [Jo2] and [Hö2], while Section 5 is taken from [Jo4] and [Hö2].

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  • The survey [Jo6] covers the content of Sections 1, 2, 4 and 5.

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  • In Section 3, Theorem 3.1 follows the presentation by A. Majda [Ma] of a theorem of S. Klainerman and himself, while Theorem 3.2 is due to the author [A19].

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Alinhac, S. (1995). Quasilinear Systems in One Space Dimension. In: Blowup for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 17. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2578-2_4

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