A Note on a Camassa-Holm Type Equation
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https://doi.org/10.5890/JAND.2025.06.006Abstract
Camassa-Holm equation arises as model for unidirectional propagation of shallow water waves over a flat bottom. In this paper, we prove the well-posedness of the classical solution for the Cauchy problem associated with this equation, for every choice of the time $T$.References
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