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Wave breaking and infinite propagation speed for a modified two-component Camassa-Holm system with
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2014, Article number: 125 (2014)
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the modified two-component Camassa-Holm equation with on the real line. Firstly, we establish sufficient conditions on the initial data to guarantee that the corresponding solution blows up in finite time for the modified two-component Camassa-Holm (MCH2) system. Then an infinite propagation speed for MCH2 is proved in the following sense: the corresponding solution with compactly supported initial data does not have compact x-support in its lifespan.
MSC:37L05, 35Q58, 26A12.
1 Introduction
In this paper, we consider the following modified two-component Camassa-Holm system:
where , , u denotes the velocity field, and ρ is related to the free surface density with the boundary assumptions; expresses an averaged or filtered density, κ is a nonnegative dissipative parameter, g is the downward constant acceleration of gravity in applications to shallow water waves. For convenience we assume in this paper. Moreover, u and γ satisfy the boundary conditions: and as .
Let , then the operator can be expressed by its associated Green’s function as
Let , then , and let . It is convenient to rewrite system (1.1) in the following equivalent integral-differential form:
In what follows, we will consider system (1.2) for instead of system (1.1) for u, and we omit the tilde on the u for simplicity. So we consider the following system:
Obviously, under the constraints of and , system (1.1) reduces to the Camassa-Holm equation, which was derived physically by Camassa and Holm in [1] (found earlier by Fokas and Fuchssteniner [2] as a bi-Hamiltonian generalization of the KdV equation) by directly approximating the Hamiltonian for Euler’s equation in the shallow water region with representing the free surface above a flat bottom. There have been extensive studies on Camassa-Holm equation. Now, we mention some results that are related to our results. Firstly, wave breaking for a large class of initial data has been established in [3–6]. Recently, Zhou and his collaborators [7] give a direct proof for McKean’s theorem [5]. In addition, the large time behavior for the support of momentum density of the Camassa-Holm equation was studied in [8]. An interesting phenomenon of the propagation speed for the Camassa-Holm equation with was presented by Zhou and his collaborators in their work [9] in the sense that a strong solution of the Cauchy problem with compact initial profile cannot be compactly supported at any later time unless it is the zero solution. Meanwhile, for the same problem about the equation , we refer to [10] for details.
The Camassa-Holm equation [1] has recently been extended to a two-component Camassa-Holm (CH2) system:
The CH2 system appeared initially in [11], and recently Constantin and Ivanov in [12] gave a demonstration about its derivation in view of the fluid shallow water theory from the hydrodynamic point of view. This generalization, similar to the Camassa-Holm equation, possessed the peakon, multi-kink solutions and the bi-Hamiltonian structure [13, 14] and is always integrable. The wave breaking mechanism was discussed in [15–17] and the existence of global solutions was analyzed in [12, 16, 18]. A geometric investigation can be found in [15, 19].
Recently the CH2 system was generalized into the following modified two-component Camassa-Holm (MCH2) system with and :
Note that the MCH2 system is a modified version of the two-component Camassa-Holm (CH2) system to allow a dependence on the average density (or depth, in the shallow water interpretation) as well as the pointwise density ρ. This MCH2 system admits peaked solutions in the velocity and average density [20–23]. We find that the MCH2 system is expressed in terms of an averaged or filtered density in analogy to the relation between momentum and velocity by setting . Meanwhile, the MCH2 may not be integrable unlike the CH2 system. The characteristic is that it will amount to strengthening the norm for from to in the potential energy term [21]. It means we have the following conserved quantity:
We cannot obtain the conservation of norm for the CH2 system.
In what follows, we always assume and .
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we will present some results, which will be used in this paper. In Section 3, we will establish several sufficient conditions to guarantee that the corresponding strong solution brows up. In Section 4, we will investigate the infinite propagation speed of MCH2 with .
2 Preliminaries
In this section, for completeness, we recall some elementary results. We list them and skip their proofs for conciseness. Local well-posedness for the MCH2 system (1.3) can be obtained by Kato’s semigroup theory [24].
Theorem 2.1 Given , , there exist a maximal and a unique solution to system (1.3) such that
Moreover, the solution depends continuously on the initial data, i.e. the mapping
is continuous.
The proof of the theorem is similar to that in [20] and [25].
Lemma 2.2 [26]
Suppose that is a twice continuously differential satisfying
Then blows up in finite time. Moreover, the blow-up time can be estimated in terms of the initial data as
Lemma 2.3 [27]
Assume that a differentiable function satisfies
with constants . If the initial data , then the solution to (2.2) goes to −∞ before t tends to .
We also need to introduce the standard particle trajectory method for later use. Motivated by McKeans deep observation on the Camassa-Holm equation in [5], we can do a similar particle trajectory as
Differentiating the first equation in (2.3) with respect to x, one has
Hence
which is always positive before the blow-up time. Therefore, the function is an increasing diffeomorphism of a line.
3 Blow-up
In this section, we establish sufficient conditions on the initial data to guarantee blow-up for system (1.3). We start this section with the following useful lemma.
Lemma 3.1 Given , , T is assumed to be the maximal existence time of the solution to system (1.3) corresponding to the initial data . Then for all , we have the following conservation law:
Proof We will prove that is a conserved quantity with respect to the time variable. Here we use the classical energy method. Multiplying the first equation in (1.3) by and integrating by parts, we obtain
Similarly, we have the following identity for the second equation in (1.3):
Combining the above equalities, we get
Therefore, is conserved. Using the conservation law, we obtain
for all , where is the initial value of . □
The next result describes the precise blow-up scenarios for sufficiently regular solutions to system (1.3).
Theorem 3.2 Given , , there exist a maximal and a unique solution to system (1.3). Then the corresponding solutions blows up in finite time if and only if
Proof By a simple density argument, one needs only to show that the desired results are valid when , so in the following section, is taken for simplicity of notation. Firstly, multiplying the first and second equations in (1.3) by and , respectively, and integrating by parts, we have
and then combining (3.2) and (3.3), we obtain
Assume that and there exists , such that
Then, applying Gronwall’s inequality to (3.6) and (3.7), we get
On the other hand, differentiating the two equations in (1.3) with respect to x, then multiplying by and , respectively, and combining with (3.1) and (3.6), we obtain
Then applying the Sobolev embedding result (with ), we get
because of (3.8), (3.9), (3.10), and the Gronwall inequality, we obtain
where .
This contradicts the assumption. Conversely, the Sobelev embedding result (with ) implies that if Theorem 3.2 holds, the solution blows up in finite time, which completes the proof of Theorem 3.2. □
We state our first criterion via the associated initial potential as follows.
Theorem 3.3 Suppose , , , , and the initial data satisfies the following conditions:
for some point . Then the solution to our system (1.3) with initial value blows up in finite time.
Remark 3.1 This theorem is similar to the result proved by Zhou in [6].
Proof Differentiating the first equation (1.2) with respect to variable x, we obtain
Applying to (3.12) yields
This equation gives
where we used the fact
In order to arrive at our result, we need the following three claims.
Claim 1. for all t in its lifespan.
It is worth to notice the first two equations in (1.3) as follows:
By applying the particle trajectory method to the above two equations, we obtain
and
which implies that
Obviously, we can obtain since ; then we deduce that
Thus it is easier to see that is independent on time t. Without loss of generality, we take , and we have
Therefore, thanks to (2.4) we obtain , for all t in its lifespan.
Claim 2. For any fixed t, for all .
If , then
where the condition (i) is used. Similarly, for , we also have
for any fixed t. Combining (3.19) and (3.20), we get
Combining Claim 2 with (3.14), we get
Claim 3. is decreasing, for all .
Suppose not, i.e. there exists a such that on and . Now, let
and
Firstly, differentiating , we have
where we used the Claim 2.
Secondly, by the same argument, we get
Hence, based on (3.22), (3.23), and the continuity property of ODEs, we have
for all , which implies can be extended to infinity.
Using (3.22) and (3.23) again, we have the following equation for :
where we used .
Now, substituting (3.21) into (3.24), it yields
Let , then (3.22) is an equation of type (3.1) with . The proof is completed by applying Lemma 2.3. □
Remark 3.2 Scrutinizing the proof, we discover that the condition (i) guarantees that inequality (3.19), (3.20) hold. If it is replaced by
we find that the inequalities (3.19), (3.20) still hold. As is well known, McKean [5] states that only the sign of the initial potential , not the size of it, affects the wave breaking phenomenon. Similar to his theorem, we apply a similar initial potential to the two-component case, and it reveals that the sign of the initial density also plays an important role.
Then we give the second criterion in this paper.
Theorem 3.4 Suppose , , and that we have the following inequality:
Then the corresponding solution to system (1.3) blows up in finite time.
Proof Let
Multiplying (3.13) with and integrating by parts subsequently, we obtain the equation for as
where we used
According to the invariant property of , we get
On the other hand, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality implies that
therefore
Thus we obtain from the above that
The hypothesis of this theorem and the standard argument on the Riccati type equation ensure that there exists a time T such that
Since
we have
This completes the proof. □
Finally, we give the third criterion.
Theorem 3.5 Suppose , , and satisfy the following conditions:
Proof As mentioned in Claim 2 of Theorem 3.3, condition (i) means that for any fixed t, for all . Then
let , we obtain
where . By applying Lemma 2.3, we have
from the condition that
This completes the proof. □
4 Infinite propagation speed
In this section, we consider the infinite propagation speed for system (1.1). It can be shown as follows.
Theorem 4.1 Assume is the maximal existence time of the unique classical solutions to system (1.3). If has compact support , and is also compactly supported on the interval , moreover, (or ) on , then for , we have
where and denote continuous nonvanishing functions with and for . Furthermore, is a strictly decreasing function, while is an increasing function.
Proof Since has initially compact support , and thanks to (3.17) and (3.18), we obtain , for any ; simultaneously, has compact support , which implies that has compact support . It follows that , for any . So y is compactly supported with its support contained in the interval . Therefore the following functions are well defined:
with
Then, for ,
similarly, when
Hence, as consequences of (4.2) and (4.3), we have
and
On the other hand,
For any fixed t, , for all . Then for , we have
similarly, when , we get
when , we obtain
By using (4.7), (4.8), and (4.9), we have
Therefore, is an increasing function in the lifespan. From (4.1), it follows that for .
Similarly, it is easy to see that is decreasing with . Therefore, for .
Taking , we obtain what we want. Then the theorem is proved. □
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This work is partially supported by NSFC (Grant No. 11101376), NSFC (Grant No. 11226176) and ZJNSF (Grant No. LQ13A010008).
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Lv, W., Alsaedi, A., Hayat, T. et al. Wave breaking and infinite propagation speed for a modified two-component Camassa-Holm system with . J Inequal Appl 2014, 125 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2014-125
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