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Sharp Hadamard local well-posedness, enhanced uniqueness and pointwise continuation criterion for the incompressible free boundary Euler equations

by M. Ifrim and B. Pineau and D. Tataru and M. Taylor

(Report number 2023-43)

Abstract
We provide a complete local well-posedness theory in \(H^s\) based Sobolev spaces for the free boundary incompressible Euler equations with zero surface tension on a connected fluid domain. Our well-posedness theory includes: (i) Local well-posedness in the Hadamard sense, i.e., local existence, uniqueness, and the first proof of continuous dependence on the data, all in low regularity Sobolev spaces; (ii) Enhanced uniqueness: Our uniqueness result holds at the level of the Lipschitz norm of the velocity and the \(C^{1,\frac{1}{2}}\) regularity of the free surface; (iii) Stability bounds: We construct a nonlinear functional which measures, in a suitable sense, the distance between two solutions (even when defined on different domains) and we show that this distance is propagated by the flow; (iv) Energy estimates: We prove refined, essentially scale invariant energy estimates for solutions, relying on a newly constructed family of elliptic estimates; (v) Continuation criterion: We give the first proof of a sharp continuation criterion in the physically relevant pointwise norms, at the level of scaling. In essence, we show that solutions can be continued as long as the velocity is in \(L_T^1W^{1,\infty}\) and the free surface is in \(L_T^1C^{1,\frac{1}{2}}\), which is at the same level as the Beale-Kato-Majda criterion for the boundaryless case; (vi) A novel proof of the construction of regular solutions. Our entire approach is in the Eulerian framework and can be adapted to work in more general fluid domains.

Keywords: Euler equations, free boundary, water waves, local well-posedness, continuation criterion.

@Techreport{IPTT23_1080,
  author = {M. Ifrim and B. Pineau and D. Tataru and M. Taylor},
  title = {Sharp Hadamard local well-posedness, enhanced uniqueness and pointwise continuation criterion for the incompressible free boundary Euler equations},
  institution = {Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Z{\"u}rich},
  number = {2023-43},
  address = {Switzerland},
  url = {https://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/sam_reports/reports_final/reports2023/2023-43.pdf },
  year = {2023}
}

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