Separately twice differentiable functions and the equation of string oscillation

Abstract

We prove that for every separately twice differentiable solution $f$ of the PDE $f{"}_{xx}=f{"}_{yy}$ is of the form $f(x,y)=\varphi (x+y)+\psi (x-y)$ for some twice differentiable functions $\varphi ,\psi$.

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