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Wave breaking for the Whitham equation with fractional dispersion

Analysis of PDEs 2015-06-23 v1

Abstract

We show wave breaking for the Whitham equation in a range of fractional dispersion, i.e. the solution remains bounded but its slope becomes unbounded in finite time, provided that the initial datum is sufficiently steep.

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@article{arxiv.1410.1570,
  title  = {Wave breaking for the Whitham equation with fractional dispersion},
  author = {Vera Mikyoung Hur and Lizheng Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1570},
  year   = {2015}
}