101. Two dimensional water waves in holomorphic coordinates
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Hunter, John, Ifrim, Mihaela, and Tataru, Daniel
- Subjects
Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs ,35Q35, 42B37, 76B15 - Abstract
This article is concerned with the infinite depth water wave equation in two space dimensions. We consider this problem expressed in position-velocity potential holomorphic coordinates. Viewing this problem as a quasilinear dispersive equation, we establish two results: (i) local well-posedness in Sobolev spaces, and (ii) almost global solutions for small localized data. Neither of these results are new; they have been recently obtained by Alazard-Burq-Zuily \cite{abz}, respectively by Wu \cite{wu} using different coordinates and methods. Instead our goal is improve the understanding of this problem by providing a single setting for both problems, by proving sharper versions of the above results, as well as presenting new, simpler proofs. This article is self contained., Comment: 72 pages. We completely removed subsection 2.4. As a consequence, the proofs in Section 6 are much simpler and straightforward. Minor typos have been fixed
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- 2014