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We show how to construct globally defined dissipative multipeakon solutions of the Camassa–Holm equation. The construction includes in particular the case with peakon-antipeakon collisions. The sol...

In this paper we study initial boundary value problems of the Camassa–Holm equation on the half line and on a compact interval. Using rigorously the conservation of symmetry, it is possible to convert these boundary value problems into Cauchy problems for the Camassa–Holm equation on the line and on the circle, respectively. Applying thus known results for the latter equations we first obtain the local well-posedness of the initial boundary value problems under consideration. Then we present some blow-up and global existence results for strong solutions. Finally we investigate global and local weak solutions for the equation on the half line and on a compact interval, respectively. An interesting result of our analysis shows that the Camassa–Holm equation on a compact interval possesses no nontrivial global classical solutions.

We show that the Camassa–Holm equation ut − uxxt + 3uux − 2uxuxx − uuxxx = 0 possesses a global continuous semigroup of weak conservative solutions for initial data u|t=0 in H1. The result is obtained by introducing a coordinate transformation into Lagrangian coordinates. To characterize conservative solutions it is necessary to include the energy density given by the positive Radon measure μ with . The total energy is preserved by the solution.

We prove local existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the Camassa–Holm equation with periodic boundary conditions in various spaces of low-regularity which include the periodic peakons. The proof uses the connection of the Camassa–Holm equation with the geodesic flow on the diffeomorphism group of the circle with respect to the L 2 metric.

We establish local well-posedness in the Sobolev space H s with any for the generalized Camassa–Holm equation. Furthermore, we consider the stability and instability problem of the solitary wave solutions.

We present the precise blow-up scenario for the generalized Camassa–Holm equation. We also prove a blow-up result showing that the equation has smooth solutions in which singularities develop in finite time.