For the linear dispersive Stokes equation, factors as . In the two displayed other roots lie in the lower half-plane, so both can be used in the global relation. To check the root locations, at they have imaginary part . A root could reach the real axis only where , so continuity preserves their signs throughout this connected domain. The branch points lie outside its closure. The weights and obey and .
For the linear dispersive Stokes equation , let . Its local relation is obtained with . Integrating over the half-line gives the displayed global relation, with negative-exponential Half-range Fourier transforms and . The spatial transforms are holomorphic for , whereas the finite-time boundary transforms are entire functions.
For the linear dispersive Stokes equation on , with sufficiently smooth decaying initial data and , define and let be the time Laplace transform of the prescribed derivative . Spatial decay and the one-dimensional decaying homogeneous space give
The Neumann boundary condition follows by differentiating at zero. The initial forcing follows from the Stokes resolvent kernel with advection. The Bromwich inversion formula gives an integral representation with no unknown boundary traces. Truncating or extending the prescribed boundary signal beyond a target time does not affect earlier values, by the Laplace transform time-shift rule and causality of this Green function.
Use the linear dispersive Stokes equation with time variable . Put . Expanding the required local relation gives
Choose . Direct differentiation then yields
The unwanted coefficient of cancels precisely when . Hence
With these choices, the local relation is exactly for every complex spectral parameter for a linear boundary value problem.
Fix . In the representation from (c), the finite-horizon extension of a boundary transform allows to be replaced by . To see this directly, their difference contributes
It has an holomorphic integrand inside ; there , and the factors and allow the contour to be closed. Its integral is zero for . This replacement puts the observation-time dependence entirely in .
Every such exponential satisfies the linear dispersive Stokes equation, because
Consequently the representation satisfies the partial differential equation. The stipulated smoothness and decay justify the differentiated oscillatory integrals, or equivalently their regularized limits. The fixed horizon is useful here: no artificial source term arises from differentiating the endpoint of a time transform.
At , use the original version. The integral vanishes after closing inside , since is holomorphic there and . Fourier inversion of the initial half-line transform therefore gives
For the boundary trace use the fixed-horizon version, with . First consider the initial-data terms at . Differentiating gives
Thus changing variables separately in the two pieces of the integral gives
where goes from lower-left infinity to , across to , and then to lower-right infinity along . For completeness, on the upper-right curved edge one root maps onto the real ray and the other onto the lower-right curved edge. On the upper-left edge the corresponding images are and the lower-left edge. The middle segment maps to the remaining real intervals and . These real images cancel the outer pieces of the original real-axis integral, leaving exactly with the stated orientation.
This contour bounds the lower-central region , . The spatial transform is holomorphic there and decays on its closing arcs for . Its integral is therefore zero by the Cauchy integral theorem. The initial-data part of the boundary trace vanishes.
In the remaining boundary integral, use . Along the oriented , traverses the imaginary axis once from to . On its real segment, the imaginary part runs from to ; the two curved edges supply the complementary intervals. It follows that
The last equality is ordinary temporal Fourier inversion, after . Because is strictly inside it gives the full value, not a truncated-transform endpoint half-value. Thus
Compatibility makes the two traces agree at the corner. Spatial decay follows from the upper-contour exponential and nonstationary oscillatory estimates on the real integral as , under the assumed data decay.
The decaying smooth solution is also unique. For a zero-data difference , integration by parts in the linear dispersive Stokes equation gives
using and decay at infinity. The initial norm is zero, so . This completes verification of the initial value, boundary value and governing equation.
Use a time Laplace transform and a spatial Green function. The first-order transport term must be retained: the Airy resolvent kernel for alone would solve a different equation. The governing linear partial differential equation is the linear dispersive Stokes equation, distinct from the viscous-fluid Stokes equation.
For the time interval of interest, extend the given boundary signal by zero after and put
The possible discontinuity at does not affect a solution at . Equivalently, use any sufficiently regular continuation beyond : the resulting causal Green function produces the same earlier solution. We seek the usual solution with spatial decay and a time transform, rather than an unrestricted spatially growing solution on the half-line.
Writing for the time Laplace transform, the Laplace transform of a derivative gives
The corresponding characteristic roots are the three roots of a polynomial
For , label the unique root of negative real part by , and the two roots of positive real part by . This spatial root splitting for the dispersive Stokes resolvent is easily checked: if , then is imaginary, so no root crosses the imaginary axis as varies in the right half-plane. For real the cubic is strictly increasing on the real line and has one negative real root, while its conjugate pair has positive real parts. The root count remains the same throughout that connected half-plane. A repeated root would satisfy and again put on the imaginary axis. All roots are therefore simple there, and is a nonzero holomorphic function.
Set , including . Define the Stokes resolvent kernel with advection
The sign on the negative half-line is essential. To verify the Green function, use the partial fraction decomposition
Its expansion at infinity yields the reciprocal-polynomial root identities
Consequently and are continuous at zero, and has jump one. Each piece solves the homogeneous ordinary differential equation, so the jump conditions for a third-order Green function imply, in the sense of distributional derivatives,
Both pieces decay in their respective spatial directions.
Now define
It satisfies the transformed inhomogeneous equation. The difference solves the homogeneous linear ordinary differential equation; spatial decay leaves only . Imposing the Neumann boundary condition fixes its coefficient, giving the half-line Stokes solution with a boundary derivative
No division by a vanishing root is involved, since would require . Moreover the remaining boundary trace is explicitly known from :
Thus introduce the completely explicit initial-data kernel
For any upward Bromwich contour to the right of any transform singularities, the requested integral representation is
The contour integral is understood in the standard Bromwich inversion formula sense, with truncation limits if it is not absolutely convergent. Every term is expressed in the supplied data and algebraic characteristic roots; there are no unknown Dirichlet or second-derivative boundary traces.
The transformed equation verifies the linear partial differential equation and the initial term, while taking the spatial derivative gives . Bromwich inversion formula therefore supplies the prescribed derivative for and the initial value for . For zero initial and boundary data, the transformed solution is a decaying homogeneous mode with zero boundary derivative, hence vanishes; this proves uniqueness in the stated transform/decay class. A change of the boundary continuation after has transform times another causal transform and contributes only after , by the Laplace transform time-shift rule. The printed dot on is interpreted as its derivative in its sole variable , so the stated corner compatibility is . Additional differentiability at the corner requires the corresponding higher-order compatibility, but is not needed for the representation at positive .