A justification of the modulation approximation to the 3D full water wave problem (Q2260718)

The author considers the 3D water waves problem i.e. the motion of the free interface separating an (upper) zero-density region from a (lower) region containing an inviscid incompressible irrotational fluid submitted to gravity. The Cauchy problem for this free boundary value problem is equivalent to a 2D system describing the evolution of the interface. In this article, the author studies a class of solutions of this last system which are perturbations of a wave packet propagating in the \(x\) direction, with an amplitude satisfying a 2D cubic non linear Schrödinger equation for large times and the goal is to provide a rigorous justification of this approximation.