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

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2019.02.006MaRDI QIDQ2323958zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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