Rigidity of Singularities of 2D Gravity Water Waves

We consider the Cauchy problem for the 2D gravity water wave equation. Recently Wu [27], [28] proved the local well-posedness of the equation in a regime which allows interfaces with angled crests as initial data. In this work we study properties of these singular solutions and prove that the singularities of these solutions are “rigid”. More precisely we prove that an initial interface with angled crests remains angled crested, the Euler equation holds point-wise even on the boundary, the particle at the tip stays at the tip, the acceleration at the tip is the one due to gravity and the angle of the crest does not change nor does it tilt. We also show that the local well-posedness result of Wu [27], [28] and our rigidity results are applicable not only to interfaces with angled crests, but also to certain types of cusps.