Cauchy theory for the gravity water waves system with non-localized initial data (Q5965431)

This paper is concerned with a free boundary problem describing the motion of an incompressible, irrotational fluid flow moving under the force of gravitation, without surface tension, and considers the gravity water waves system, for rough initial data which do not decay at infinity. The aim of this paper is precisely to prove that the water waves system is locally (in time) well posed in the framework of uniformly local Sobolev spaces; certain a priori-estimates and well possedness are established and applications are indicated.