On Whitham's conjecture of a highest cusped wave for a nonlocal dispersive equation

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2019.02.006zbMATH Open1423.35059arXiv1602.05384OpenAlexW3100833252WikidataQ123105540 ScholiaQ123105540MaRDI QIDQ2323958FDOQ2323958

Authors: Mats Ehrnström, Erik Wahlén 

Publication date: 13 September 2019

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the Whitham equation $u_t+2u{u}_x+L{u}_x=0$, where L is the nonlocal Fourier multiplier operator given by the symbol $m(xi)=sqrtanhxi/xi$. G. B. Whitham conjectured that for this equation there would be a highest, cusped, travelling-wave solution. We find this wave as a limiting case at the end of the main bifurcation curve of $P$-periodic solutions, and give several qualitative properties of it, including its optimal $C^{1/2}$-regularity. An essential part of the proof consists in an analysis of the integral kernel corresponding to the symbol $m(xi)$, and a following study of the highest wave. In particular, we show that the integral kernel corresponding to the symbol $m(xi)$ is completely monotone, and provide an explicit representation formula for it.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05384

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zbMATH Keywords

global bifurcationWhitham equationhighest wavesfull-dispersion models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Nonlinear first-order PDEs (35F20) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09)

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