Relationships between various characterisations of wave tails

Details Relationships between various characterisations of wave tails Relationships between various characterisations of wave tails

2000-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0002026v1

J. Phys. A. 27 (1994) 7177-7199

Physics

Mathematical Physics

Plain TeX, 26 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/27/21/033

One can define several properties of wave equations that correspond to the absence of tails in their solutions, the most common one by far being Huygens' principle. Not all of these definitions are equivalent, although they are sometimes assumed to be. We analyse this issue in detail for linear scalar waves, establishing some relationships between the various properties. Huygens' principle is almost always equivalent to the characteristic propagation property, and in two spacetime dimensions the latter is equivalent to the zeroth order progressing wave propagation property. Higher order progressing waves in general do have tails, and do not seem to admit a simple physical characterisation, but they are nevertheless useful because of their close association with exactly solvable two-dimensional equations.

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