From the solution of the Tsarev system to the solution of the Whitham equations

DOI10.1023/A:1011892100149zbMATH Open0986.35095arXivnlin/0007016OpenAlexW2995248213MaRDI QIDQ5951920FDOQ5951920

Tamara Grava

Publication date: 13 June 2002

Published in: Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the Cauchy problem for the Whitham modulation equations for monotone increasing smooth initial data. The Whitham equations are a collection of one-dimensional quasi-linear hyperbolic systems. This collection of systems is enumerated by the genus g=0,1,2,... of the corresponding hyperelliptic Riemann surface. Each of these systems can be integrated by the so called hodograph transform introduced by Tsarev. A key step in the integration process is the solution of the Tsarev linear overdetermined system. For each $g>0$, we construct the unique solution of the Tsarev system, which matches the genus $g+1$ and $g-1$ solutions on the transition boundaries. Next we characterize initial data such that the solution of the Whitham equations has genus $gleqN$, $N>0$, for all real $tgeq0$ and $x$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0007016

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zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy problemWhitham equationshyperelliptic Riemann surfaceslinear overdetermined systems of Euler-Poisson Darboux type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euler-Poisson-Darboux equations (35Q05) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53)

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