Preface
§P.1.How this book came to be, and its peculiarities
§P.2.A bird's eye view of hyperbolic equations
Chapter 1.Simple Examples of Propagation
§1.1.The method of characteristics
§1.2.Examples of propagation of singularities using progressing waves
§1.3.Group velocity and the method of nonstationary phase
§1.4.Fourier synthesis and rectilinear propagation
§1.5.A cautionary example in geometric optics
§1.6.The law of reflection
1.6.1.The method of images
1.6.2.The plane wave derivation
1.6.3.Reflected high frequency wave packets
§1.7.Snell's law of refraction
Chapter 2.The Linear Cauchy Problem
§2.1.Energy estimates for symmetric hyperbolic systems
§2.2.Existence theorems for symmetric hyperbolic systems
62.3.Finite speed of propagation
2.3.1.The method of characteristics
2.3.2.Speed estimates uniform in space
2.3.3.Time-like and propagation cones
§2.4.Plane waves, group velocity, and phase velocities
§2.5.Precise speed estimate
§2.6.Local Cauchy problems
Appendix 2.I.Constant coefficient hyperbolic systems
Appendix 2.II.Functional analytic proof of existence
Chapter 3.Dispersive Behavior
§3.1.Orientation
§3.2.Spectral decomposition of solutions
§3.3.Large time asymptotics
§3.4.Maximally dispersive systems
3.4.1.The L1 → Lo decay estimate
3.4.2.Fixed time dispersive Sobolev estimates
3.4.3.Strichartz estimates
Appendix 3.I.Perturbation theory for semisimple eigenvalues
Appendix 3.IⅡ.The stationary phase inequality
Chapter 4.Linear Elliptic Geometric Optics
§4.1.Euler's method and elliptic geometric optics with constant coefficients
§4.2.Iterative improvement for variable coefficients and nonlinear phases
§4.3.Formal asymptotics approach
§4.4.Perturbation approach
§4.5.Elliptic regularity
§4.6.The Microlocal Elliptic Regularity Theorem
Chapter 5.Linear Hyperbolic Geometric Optics
§5.1.Introduction
§5.2.Second order scalar constant coefficient principal part
5.2.1.Hyperbolic problems
5.2.2.The quasiclassical limit of quantum mechanics
§5.3.Symmetric hyperbolic systems
§5.4.Rays and transport