Electronic Journal of Differential Equations (May 2012)

Solutions to over-determined systems of partial differential equations related to Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian surfaces

  • Bang-Yen Chen

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2012, no. 83,
pp. 1 – 7

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This article concerns the over-determined system of partial differential equations $$ Big(frac{k}{f}Big)_x+Big(frac{f}{k}Big)_y=0, quad frac{f_{y}}{k}=frac{k_x}{f},quad Big(frac{f_y}{k}Big)_y+Big(frac{k_x}{f}Big)_x=-varepsilon fk,. $$ It was shown in [6, Theorem 8.1] that this system with $varepsilon=0$ admits traveling wave solutions as well as non-traveling wave solutions. In this article we solve completely this system when $varepsilone 0$. Our main result states that this system admits only traveling wave solutions, whenever $varepsilon e 0$.

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