On the existence of a wave of greatest height and Stokes’s conjecture

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1978.0178zbMATH Open0388.76016OpenAlexW2028205420WikidataQ62773257 ScholiaQ62773257MaRDI QIDQ4170399FDOQ4170399

Authors: John F. Toland 

Publication date: 1978

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1978.0178

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other nonlinear integral equations (45G10) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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