A remark on global existence for small initial data of the minimal surface equation in Minkowskian space time
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Abstract:
We show that the nonlinear wave equation corresponding to the minimal surface equation in Minkowski space time has a global solution for sufficiently small initial data.References
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Additional Information
- Hans Lindblad
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0112
- Email: lindblad@math.ucsd.edu
- Received by editor(s): December 9, 2002
- Published electronically: September 18, 2003
- Communicated by: David S. Tartakoff
- © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 1095-1102
- MSC (2000): Primary 35-xx
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07246-0
- MathSciNet review: 2045426