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On the Cauchy problem for gravity water waves

Analysis of PDEs 2014-04-17 v2

Abstract

We are interested in the system of gravity water waves equations without surface tension. Our purpose is to study the optimal regularity thresholds for the initial conditions. In terms of Sobolev embeddings, the initial surfaces we consider turn out to be only of~C3/2+ϵC^{3/2+\epsilon}-class for some ϵ>0\epsilon>0 and consequently have unbounded curvature, while the initial velocities are only Lipschitz. We reduce the system using a paradifferential approach.

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@article{arxiv.1212.0626,
  title  = {On the Cauchy problem for gravity water waves},
  author = {Thomas Alazard and Nicolas Burq and Claude Zuily},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0626},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

This is a shortened version (of our previous arXiv submission 1212.0626) which appeared in Inventiones 2014

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