Hadamard's method of descent

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In mathematics, the method of descent is the term coined by the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard as a method for solving a partial differential equation in several real or complex variables, by regarding it as the specialisation of an equation in more variables, constant in the extra parameters. This method has been used to solve the wave equation, the heat equation and other versions of the Cauchy initial value problem.

As (Hadamard 1923) wrote:

References

  • Hadamard, Jacques (1923), Lectures on Cauchy's Problem in Linear Partial Differential Equations, Dover Publications, p. 49, ISBN 0486495493 
  • Bers, Lipman; John, Fritz; Schechter, Martin (1964), Partial differential equations, American Mathematical Society, p. 16, ISBN 0821800493 
  • Courant, Richard; Hilbert, David (1953), Methods of mathematical physics, Vol. II, Interscience, p. 205 
  • Folland, Gerald B. (1995), Introduction to partial differential equations, Princeton University Press, p. 171, ISBN 0691043612 
  • Maz'ya, V. G.; Shaposhnikova, T. O. (1998), Jacques Hadamard: a universal mathematician, American Mathematical Society, p. 472, ISBN 0821819232