Wave Breaking and Global Existence for a Generalized Two-Component Camassa-Holm System

Abstract

In this paper, we study a generalized two-component Camassa–Holm system which can be derived from the theory of shallow water waves moving over a linear shear flow. This new system also generalizes a class of dispersive waves in cylindrical compressible hyperelastic rods. We show that this new system can still exhibit the wave-breaking phenomenon. We also determine the exact blow-up rate of such solutions. In addition, we establish a sufficient condition for global solutions.