Qualitative analysis for the new shallow-water model with cubic nonlinearity

Abstract

Considered in this paper is the new shallow-water model with cubic nonlinearity, which admits the single peaked solitons and multi-peakon solutions, and includes both the modified Camassa-Holm equation (also called Fokas-Olver-Rosenau-Qiao equation) and the Novikov equation as two special cases. The main investigation is the Cauchy problem of the new shallow-water model with qualitative properties of its solutions. We first establish the local well-posedness for the Cauchy problem of the new shallow-water model, and then derive a precise blow-up scenario and the blow-up mechanisms for solutions with certain initial profiles. Moreover, with analytic initial data, we show that its solutions are analytic in both variables, globally in space and locally in time. Finally, we investigate the persistence properties of the solution to the Cauchy problem of the new shallow-water model.