Lecturer
Gabriele Benomio gabriele.benomio@gssi.it
Timetable and workload
Lectures: 16 hours
Course content
The course will introduce basic properties of linear waves and some global results for nonlinear wave equations via energy methods. Part of the course will discuss connections with global problems for wave equations arising from physics, such as the nonlinear stability of Minkowski space as a solution to Einstein's equations of general relativity. The course will be intended for a broad audience. Some exposure to the analysis of partial differential equations (as for instance the material covered in the first-semester courses at GSSI) will be assumed.