Decoupling of Modes for the Elastic Wave Equation in Media of Limited Smoothness

Autor: Hart F. Smith, Maarten V. de Hoop, Valeriy Brytik, Gunther Uhlmann
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Communications in Partial Differential Equations. 36:1683-1693
ISSN: 1532-4133
0360-5302
Popis: We establish a decoupling result for the P and S waves of linear, isotropic elasticity, in the setting of twice-differentiable Lame parameters. Precisely, we show that the P↔S components of the wave propagation operator are regularizing of order one on L 2 data, by establishing the diagonalization of the elastic system modulo a L 2-bounded operator. Effecting the diagonalization in the setting of twice-differentiable coefficients depends upon the symbol of the conjugation operator having a particular structure.
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