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A remark on global existence for small initial data of the minimal surface equation in Minkowskian space time

Author(s): Hans Lindblad
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 1095-1102.
MSC (2000): Primary 35-xx
Posted: September 18, 2003
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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.

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Hans Lindblad
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0112
Email: lindblad@math.ucsd.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07246-0
PII: S 0002-9939(03)07246-0
Received by editor(s): December 9, 2002
Posted: September 18, 2003
Communicated by: David S. Tartakoff
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society

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