2015/08/26 by Michael V. Klibanov, Klibanov, Michael V.
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #math-ph #math.AP #math.MP
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1508.07232
arxiv created 2015/08/26 · arxiv updated 2015/08/31
In 1930 Sergey L. Sobolev [7,8] has proposed a construction of the solution of the Cauchy problem for the hyperbolic equation of the second order with variable coefficients in 3-d. Although Sobolev did not construct the fundamental solution, his construction was modified later by Romanov [4,5] to obtain the fundamental solution. However, these works impose a restrictive assumption of the regularity of geodesic lines in a large domain. In addition, it is unclear how to realize those methods numerically. In this paper a simple construction of a function, which is associated in a clear way with the fundamental solution of the acoustic equation with the variable speed in 3-d, is proposed. Conditions on geodesic lines are not imposed. An important feature of this construction is that it lends itself to effective computations.