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Symmetric hyperbolic systems for a large class of fields in arbitrary dimension

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Symmetric hyperbolic systems of equations are explicitly constructed for a general class of tensor fields by considering their structure as r-fold forms. The hyperbolizations depend on 2r−1 arbitrary timelike vectors. The importance of the so-called “superenergy” tensors, which provide the necessary symmetric positive matrices, is emphasized and made explicit. Thereby, a unified treatment of many physical systems is achieved, as well as of the sometimes called “higher order” systems. The characteristics of these symmetric hyperbolic systems are always physical, and directly related to the null directions of the superenergy tensor, which are in particular principal null directions of the tensor field solutions. Generic energy estimates and inequalities are presented too. Examples are included, in particular a mixed gravitational-scalar field system at the level of the Bianchi equations.

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Senovilla, J.M.M. Symmetric hyperbolic systems for a large class of fields in arbitrary dimension. Gen Relativ Gravit 39, 361–386 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-006-0390-2

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