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Main Authors: Ifrim, Mihaela, Wilkening, Jon, Zhao, Xinyu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23908
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author Ifrim, Mihaela
Wilkening, Jon
Zhao, Xinyu
author_facet Ifrim, Mihaela
Wilkening, Jon
Zhao, Xinyu
contents We provide the first proof of local well-posedness for the two-dimensional gravity water wave equations with spatially quasi-periodic initial conditions. We represent the solution using holomorphic coordinates, which are equivalent to a conformal mapping formulation of the equations of motion. This allows us to compute the Dirichlet-Neumann operator via the Hilbert transform, which has a simple form in the spatially quasiperiodic setting. We use a Littlewood-Paley decomposition adapted to the quasiperiodic setting and establish multiplicative and commutator estimates in this framework. The key step of the proof is the derivation of quasilinear energy estimates for the linearized water wave equations with quasiperiodic initial data.
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spellingShingle Local well-posedness of spatially quasiperiodic gravity water waves in two dimensions
Ifrim, Mihaela
Wilkening, Jon
Zhao, Xinyu
Analysis of PDEs
35Q35, 42B37, 76B15
We provide the first proof of local well-posedness for the two-dimensional gravity water wave equations with spatially quasi-periodic initial conditions. We represent the solution using holomorphic coordinates, which are equivalent to a conformal mapping formulation of the equations of motion. This allows us to compute the Dirichlet-Neumann operator via the Hilbert transform, which has a simple form in the spatially quasiperiodic setting. We use a Littlewood-Paley decomposition adapted to the quasiperiodic setting and establish multiplicative and commutator estimates in this framework. The key step of the proof is the derivation of quasilinear energy estimates for the linearized water wave equations with quasiperiodic initial data.
title Local well-posedness of spatially quasiperiodic gravity water waves in two dimensions
topic Analysis of PDEs
35Q35, 42B37, 76B15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23908