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Semestre 2022-1

Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

Advanced Graduate Course on Differential Equations 

Posgrado en Ciencias Matemáticas (UNAM)

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Temario

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Online classes 

Introduction and General Information

Section I: Nonlinear first order PDE

Method of characteristics   Loss of regularity   Fully nonlinear   Hamilton-Jacobi equations I  H-J equations II  H-J equations III

Section II: Scalar conservation laws

Entropy condition   Lax-Oleinik formula   Lax-Oleinik formula as entropy solution   Uniqueness of entropy solutions

Riemann's problem    Long time behavior

Section III: System of conservation laws

Introduction to system of conservation laws     Integral solutions and hyperbolic systems    Hyperbolic systems II   

Simple and rarefaction waves     The shock set    Contact discontinuities, shock waves and Riemann's problem     Entropy criteria

Section IV: Nonlinear wave equations

Conservation of energy and finite propagation speed     Sobolev spaces and weak solutions     Existence of solutions

Subcritical power nonlinearity      Nonexistence of solutions

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