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TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
Volume 355, Issue 6, Pages 2439-2451Publisher
AMER MATHEMATICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03228-8
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Let W be a crystallographic group in R-n generated by reflections and let Omega be the fundamental domain of W. We characterize stationary sets for the wave equation in Omega when the initial data is supported in the interior of Omega. The stationary sets are the sets of time-invariant zeros of nontrivial solutions that are identically zero at t = 0. We show that, for these initial data, the (n - 1)-dimensional part of the stationary sets consists of hyperplanes that are mirrors of a crystallographic group (W) over tilde W < <(W)over tilde>. This part comes from a corresponding odd symmetry of the initial data. In physical language, the result is that if the initial source is localized strictly inside of the crystalline Omega, then unmovable interference hypersurfaces can only be faces of a crystalline substructure of the original one.
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