Weakly Regular Hyperbolic Boundary Value Problems of Real Type
Doctoral thesis
Date of Examination:2023-06-23
Date of issue:2023-09-11
Advisor:Prof. Dr. Ingo Witt
Referee:Prof. Dr. Ingo Witt
Referee:Prof. Dr. Dorothea Bahns
Referee:Prof. Dr. Michael Ruzhansky
Sponsor:DAAD
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Abstract
English
In this thesis, we derive energy estimates for weakly regular hyperbolic boundary value problems of real type, for which the Lopatinskii condition degenerates in a specific way in the so-called hyperbolic region. Such boundary problems, commonly known in the literature as WR, are easily seen to be stable under small perturbations of the coefficients and the initial data. Moreover, their applications include many relevant physical situations like the formation of shock waves in isentropic gas dynamics and the subsonic phase transitions in a van der Waals fluid. In these and other WR problems, the failure of the uniform Lopatinskii condition plays a major role since it is associated to a loss of regularity in the scale of Sobolev spaces, eventually leading to energy estimates that might be ill-suited for dealing with nonlinear problems when solved by iteration. To circumvent this problem, one option is to apply a Nash-Moser-Hormander iterative scheme consisting of a two-step procedure that includes a smoothing operator to compensate for the loss of regularity at each iteration. Another alternative is to modify the underlying function spaces so that the a priori estimates do not experience a loss of regularity. In the course of this dissertation, we adopt the latter technique as a starting point and derive linear estimates for the model case that are comparable to existing results, but using a more robust approach that we later generalise to some extent to variable coefficients. The result represents a significant progress towards the ultimate goal of having a one-step technique applicable to nonlinear problems of this kind.
Keywords: Energy estimates; Lopatinskii condition; hyperbolic boundary value problems; WR class