We present an axiomatic/synthetic account of the Huygens Principle of wave fronts. The primitive notions are "touching", and (a weak notion of ) metric. The paper simplifies some of the exposition of the author's "Metric spaces and SDG", Theory and Appl. of Categories 32 (2017), 803-822
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We prove a Paley-Wiener Theorem for a class of symmetric spaces of the compact type, in which all root multiplicities are even. This theorem characterizes functions of small support in terms of holomorphic extendability and exponential type of their (discrete) Fourier transforms. We also provide three independent new p…
Due to spectral obstructions, a scattering theory in the Lax-Phillips sense for the wave equation for differential p-forms on H^{n+1} cannot be developed. As a consequence, Huygens' principle for the wave equation in this context does not hold. If we restrict the class of forms and we consider the case of coclosed p-fo…
A new model uses Lorentz-Finsler geometry to predict wave propagation.
problem Modeling wave propagation in anisotropic and rheonomic media.
method Identifying wave trajectories as lightlike pregeodesics of a specific Lorentz-Finsler metric, solving ODE systems.
result Wave trajectories can be easily computed in real time.
We extend to the -dimensional case a recent theorem establishing the validity of the Huygens' envelope principle for wavefronts in Finsler spaces. Our results have direct applications in analogue gravity models, for which the Fermat's principle of least time naturally gives origin to an underlying Finslerian geometr…
Improved model predicts wildfire spread on slopes.
problem Accurate prediction of wildfire spread on slopes.
method Combines Rothermel model, Huygens' principle, and advanced techniques.
result More precise model of wildfire propagation.
Solves wave equation on non-flat harmonic manifolds using Abel transform and Fourier analysis.
problem Wave equation on non-flat harmonic manifolds with specific curvature conditions.
method Explicit representation using inverse dual Abel transform and Fourier transform.
result Shows asymptotic Huygens principle and equidistribution of energy.
Wave propagation framework using cone structures and observers' vector fields.
problem Describing classic wave propagation in anisotropic media.
method Introduces a cone structure and an observers' vector field to describe wave propagation.
result Reduces the PDE for wavefronts to ODE for cone geodesics of .
Any surface can be foliated into equipotential hypersurfaces of the level sets. A current result is that the contours are the progressing wave fronts of a certain hyperbolic partial differential equation, a wave equation. It is connected with the gradient lines, as well as with a corresponding eikonal equation. The lev…
Stability of catenoid in 4D Minkowski space proven without symmetry assumptions.
problem Stability of the catenoid as a nonflat stationary solution to the HVMC equation in 4D.
method Established asymptotic stability under codimension-1 assumption, using new commutator vector field estimates.
result Catenoid stability in 4D proven without symmetry assumptions, with improved pointwise decay.