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On the breaking of waves described by Whitham's equation

N.O. Tomilina

Moscow University Physics Bulletin 1991. 46. N 2. P. 14

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In this paper it is proved that in the case of a continuous and absolutely integrable kernel of Whitham's equation, an initially piecewise-smooth (sharpened) perturbation remains piecewise smooth during the whole time of existence of a solution to Cauchy's problem.

Authors
N.O. Tomilina
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119992, Russia
Issue 2, 1991

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