Stokes waves with vorticity

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Abstract: The existence of periodic waves propagating downstream on the surface of a two-dimensional infinitely deep water under gravity is established for a general class of vorticities. When reformulated as an elliptic boundary value problem in a fixed semi-infinite strip with a parameter, the operator describing the problem is nonlinear and non-Fredholm. A global connected set of nontrivial solutions is obtained via singular theory of bifurcation. Each solution on the continuum has a symmetric and monotone wave profile. The proof uses a generalized degree theory, global bifurcation theory and Wyburn's lemma in topology, combined with the Schauder theory for elliptic problems and the maximum principle.



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