Existence and uniqueness of the global conservative weak solutions for a cubic Camassa-Holm type equation

Abstract

The extended cubic Camassa-Holm equation can be derived as asymptotic model from shallow-water approximation to the 2D incompressible Euler equations. This model encompasses both quadratic and cubic nonlinearities and the solution of the extended cubic Camassa-Holm equation possible development of singularities in finite time. This paper is devoted to the continuation of solutions to the extended cubic Camassa-Holm equation beyond wave breaking, and the global existence and uniqueness of the Hölder continuous energy conservative solutions for the Cauchy problem of the extended cubic Camassa-Holm type equation are investigated. An equivalent semilinear system was first introduced by a new set of independent and dependent variables, which can resolve all singularities due to possible wave breaking. Returning to the original variables, depending continuously on the initial data, the existence of the global conservative weak solutions can be obtained. Moreover, by analyzing the evolution of the quantities u and v=2arctan⁡ux along each characteristic, the uniqueness of the global conservative solutions for the Cauchy problem with general initial data u0∈H1(R) was proved.