Global solvability for semidiscrete Kirchhoff equation

Abstract

It is effective to consider discretized problems for partial differential equations that are difficult to analyze themselves. The global solvability of the initial value problem of the Kirchhoff equation is still unsolved except in cases where the initial value is a specially restricted class. In this paper, we prove the global solvability of the semidiscrete Kirchhoff equation, which is obtained by discretizing the Kirchhoff equation with respect to spatial variables.