Seminar series
Date
Mon, 13 Jan 2014
Time
16:30 -
17:20
Location
L4
Speaker
Pin Yu
Organisation
Tsing Hua University
We present a mechanism of shock formation for a class of quasilinear wave equations. The solutions are stable and no symmetry assumption is assumed. The proof is based on the energy estimates and on the study of Lorentzian geometry defined by the solution.