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Global wellposedness of the 3-D full water wave problem

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We consider the problem of global in time existence and uniqueness of solutions of the 3-D infinite depth full water wave problem, in the setting that the interface tends to the horizontal plane, the velocity and acceleration on the interface tend to zero at spatial infinity. We show that the nature of the nonlinearity of the water wave equation is essentially of cubic and higher orders. For any initial interface that is sufficiently small in its steepness and velocity, we show that there exists a unique smooth solution of the full water wave problem for all time, and the solution decays at the rate 1/t.

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Wu, S. Global wellposedness of the 3-D full water wave problem. Invent. math. 184, 125–220 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-010-0288-1

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