Two dimensional water waves in holomorphic coordinates

Abstract

This article is concerned with the infinite depth water wave equation in two space dimensions. We consider this problem expressed in position-velocity potential holomorphic coordinates. Viewing this problem as a quasilinear dispersive equation, we establish two results: (i) local well-posedness in Sobolev spaces, and (ii) almost global solutions for small localized data. Neither of these results are new; they have been recently obtained by Alazard-Burq-Zuily \cite{abz}, respectively by Wu \cite{wu} using different coordinates and methods. Instead our goal is improve the understanding of this problem by providing a single setting for both problems, by proving sharper versions of the above results, as well as presenting new, simpler proofs. This article is self contained.

72 pages. We completely removed subsection 2.4. As a consequence, the proofs in Section 6 are much simpler and straightforward. Minor typos have been fixed

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