Adrian Constantin

Wave breaking for nonlinear nonlocal shallow water equations

WAVE BREAKING FOR NONLINEAR NONLOCAL SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS 233 THEOREM 2.1. Let T>O and vE C 1 ([0, T); H 2(R)). Then for every t~ [0, T) there exists at least one point ~(t)ER with ,~(t) := in~ Ivy(t, x)] = ~ ( t , ~(t)), and the function m is almost everywhere differentiable on (0, T) with dm dt (t)=vt~(t,~(t)) a.e. on (O,T). Proof. Let c>0 stand for a generic constant. Fix te[0, T) and define m(t):=infxcR[v~(t,x)]. If m(t))O we have that v(t , . ) is nondecreasing on R and therefore v(t,. ) 0 (recall v(t,. )cL2(R)) , so that we may assume re(t)<0. Since vx(t,. ) c H I ( R ) we see that limlxl~ ~ Vx(t, x)=0 so that there exists at least a ~(t) e R with re(t) =v~(t, ~(t)). Let now s, tC [0, T) be fixed. If re(t) <~rn(s) we have 0 < re(s) .~(t) = i n f [~x (~, x ) ] ~ ( t , ~(t)) <. ~=(~, ~(t)) -~x(t, ~(t)), and by the Sobolev embedding HI(R) C L ~ ( R ) we conclude that Im(8)-.~(t)l ~< Ivx(t)-v~(s)lL~(~) < c Iv~(t)-v~(8)l.l(R). Hence the mean-value theorem for functions with values in Banach spaces-Hi(R) in the present case--yields (see [12]) jm(t)-m(s)l<~clt-s j m a x [IVt~(T)JHI(R)], t, se[O,T). O~T~max{s,t} Since vt~cC([O,T), Hi(R)) , we see that m is locally Lipschitz on [0, T) and therefore Rademachers theorem (cf. [14]) implies that m is almost everywhere differentiable on (0,T). Fix tC(0, T). We have that v~(t+h)-vx(t)h vt~(t) Hl(R) ---~0 as h--*O, and therefore vx( t+h ,y ) -vx ( t , y ) sup vtx(t,y) --~0 as h---~O, (2.1) ycl~ h in view of the continuous embedding H 1 ( R ) c L ~ (R). 234 A. C O N S T A N T I N AND J. E S C H E R By the definition of m, m(t+h) = v~(t+h, ((t+h)) <. v~(t+h, ((t)). Consequently, given h>0 , we obtain m( t+h) -m( t ) <<. h Letting h--~O + and using (2.1), we find lim sup m(t+h) -m( t ) h~_~0 + h

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