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''Liouville's equation'''
'''Liouville's equation'''


<center><math>\Box u = \exp(u)</math></center>
<center><math>\Box u = \exp(u)</math></center>
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Standard energy methods give GWP in H^1.
Standard energy methods give GWP in H^1.
== See also ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%27s_equation]
* [http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/an-explicitly-solvable-nonlinear-wave-equation]
== References ==


# J. Liouville, Sur l'equation aux differences partielles <math>\partial^2 \ln \lambda /\partial u \partial v \pm 2 \lambda q^2=0</math>, J. Math. Pure Appl. 18(1853), 71--74.
# J. Liouville, Sur l'equation aux differences partielles <math>\partial^2 \ln \lambda /\partial u \partial v \pm 2 \lambda q^2=0</math>, J. Math. Pure Appl. 18(1853), 71--74.


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Revision as of 23:46, 22 January 2009

Liouville's equation

in first arose in the problem of prescribing scalar curvature on a surface. It can be explicitly solved as

as was first observed by Liouville.

It is a limiting case of the sinh-gordon equation.

Standard energy methods give GWP in H^1.

See also

References

  1. J. Liouville, Sur l'equation aux differences partielles , J. Math. Pure Appl. 18(1853), 71--74.