Non–existence of solitary water waves in three dimensions

DOI10.1098/rsta.2002.1065zbMath1013.76015WikidataQ52014315 ScholiaQ52014315MaRDI QIDQ4804000

Walter Craig

Publication date: 9 April 2003

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2002.1065

zbMATH Keywords

Euler equations; non-existence; surface water waves; three-dimensional solitary waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q35: PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

76B25: Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

35Q51: Soliton equations

76B03: Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids

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