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Three-scale singular limits with applications to rapidly rotating fluids and the hyperbolization of dispersive systems

Vincent Duch\^ene , Arnaud Duran , Khawla Msheik This is my paper

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Sufficient conditions on initial data secure uniform control and strong convergence in singular limits of quasilinear hyperbolic systems with two stiff parameters.

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The paper studies singular limits for quasilinear hyperbolic systems that include two independent stiff parameters. These systems can generate small-amplitude, small-wavelength spatial oscillations even from smooth initial data. The authors supply sufficient conditions on the initial data that block this growth and keep solutions uniformly bounded. With those conditions in place, solutions converge strongly as the stiff parameters tend to zero. The same framework is applied to the rapidly rotating shallow-water equations with topography and to hyperbolic relaxations of several dispersive water-wave models.

Core claim

For a general class of quasilinear hyperbolic systems possessing two a priori independent stiff parameters, there exist conditions on the initial data that guarantee uniform control of solutions and strong convergence in the singular limit as both stiff parameters approach zero, even though the system can otherwise develop rapid small-amplitude oscillations.

What carries the argument

The sufficient conditions on initial data that secure uniform control and prevent rapid development of small-amplitude spatial oscillations.

If this is right

  • Strong convergence holds for the rapidly rotating shallow-water system with bottom topography under the stated initial-data conditions.
  • The same convergence applies to hyperbolic relaxations of the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony, Boussinesq-Peregrine, and Serre-Green-Naghdi equations.
  • Uniform bounds are obtained even when the two stiff parameters are independent.
  • The theory covers both rotating-fluid and dispersive-wave contexts within one abstract framework.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same initial-data restrictions may be useful for designing stable numerical schemes that treat multiple stiff terms simultaneously.
  • Analogous conditions could be sought for other physical models that combine rotation and dispersion with independent relaxation rates.
  • The result suggests that control of oscillations in multi-parameter limits often reduces to a precise balance between initial velocity and height or displacement fields.

Load-bearing premise

The initial data must satisfy conditions that prevent rapid development of small-amplitude spatial oscillations.

What would settle it

An explicit smooth initial datum for one of the model systems that produces uncontrolled oscillations or prevents strong convergence as the stiff parameters vanish would falsify the claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.01913 by Arnaud Duran, Khawla Msheik, Vincent Duch\^ene.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Roadmap of the proof of Theorem 1.4 and Theorem 1.7. Left column: references to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Representation of the admissible set of weights [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Representation of the admissible weight α used in the proof of Theorem 1.4, Theorem 1.9 and Theorem 1.10. One has ε < δ < 1, and λ = 1. The abscissa depicts spatial regularity indices while the ordinate depicts time regularity indices. The horizontal dashed line represent the minimal value that j♯ ∈ N may take in Theorem 1.4, Theorem 1.9 and Theorem 1.10 respectively. Remark 1.8. The assumption that Πδ(k) … view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Numerical solutions to the toy model (8). The top two panels represent [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Representation of the admissible set for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p048_5.png] view at source ↗
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We consider singular problems for a general class of quasilinear hyperbolic systems that involve two a priori independent stiff parameters. We argue that such situations may lead to the rapid development of small-amplitude spatial oscillations of small wavelength starting from arbitrarily smooth initial data. Despite this phenomenon we provide sufficient conditions on initial data that secure the uniform control of solutions and show strong convergence in the singular limit of small stiff parameters. We apply our general theory to the rapidly rotating shallow-water system with bottom topography, and to hyperbolic systems stemming from a constraint-relaxation strategy applied to dispersive models for the propagation of water waves, specifically the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony, Boussinesq-Peregrine and Serre-Green-Naghdi equations.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript develops a theory for three-scale singular limits arising in quasilinear hyperbolic systems that possess two a priori independent stiff parameters. It identifies a class of initial data for which small-amplitude, small-wavelength spatial oscillations remain controlled, yielding uniform a-priori bounds and strong convergence to a limit system as the stiff parameters vanish. The general framework is applied to the rapidly rotating shallow-water equations with bottom topography and to hyperbolized versions of the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony, Boussinesq-Peregrine, and Serre-Green-Naghdi equations obtained via constraint relaxation.

Significance. If the stated sufficient conditions on the initial data are both verifiable and sufficient to close the estimates, the work supplies a systematic approach to multi-scale singular limits that extends beyond the classical two-scale setting. The applications to geophysical fluids and to the hyperbolization of dispersive models would be of direct interest to analysts and numerical analysts working on rotating fluids and water-wave equations.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract asserts the existence of sufficient conditions on initial data that secure uniform control and strong convergence, yet supplies neither an explicit statement of those conditions nor a proof sketch or error estimate. Without these elements the central claim cannot be assessed from the given text.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for highlighting the need for greater clarity in the abstract. We address the single major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] The abstract asserts the existence of sufficient conditions on initial data that secure uniform control and strong convergence, yet supplies neither an explicit statement of those conditions nor a proof sketch or error estimate. Without these elements the central claim cannot be assessed from the given text.

    Authors: The referee is correct that the abstract states the existence of sufficient conditions without spelling them out. The precise conditions appear in Theorem 2.1: the initial data must be well-prepared, meaning that the components associated with the two stiff parameters satisfy a smallness condition of order O(ε) in a Sobolev space of sufficiently high regularity, where ε collects the stiff parameters. The proof strategy is outlined in Section 3: we derive uniform a-priori bounds by constructing a modified energy functional that cancels the leading singular terms, then pass to the limit via a compactness argument that yields strong convergence in L^2. While abstracts are necessarily concise, we agree that a short indication of the well-preparedness requirement would make the central claim more immediately assessable and will revise the abstract accordingly. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper states a direct mathematical result: it supplies sufficient conditions on initial data for quasilinear hyperbolic systems with two stiff parameters that yield uniform a-priori bounds and strong convergence in the singular limit. No derivation step reduces by construction to a fitted parameter, a self-definition, or a load-bearing self-citation whose content is itself the target claim. The argument is presented as an existence proof of a suitable data class followed by passage to the limit, which is self-contained against external benchmarks and does not invoke any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

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Only abstract available; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities can be extracted. The central claim rests on the existence of unspecified sufficient conditions on initial data for a general class of systems.

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