Exact solitary water waves with capillary ripples at infinity

We prove the existence of solitary water waves of elevation, as exact solutions of the equations of steady inviscid flow, taking into account the effect of surface tension on the free surface. In contrast to the case without surface tension, a resonance occurs with periodic waves of the same speed. The wave form consists of a single crest on the elongated scale with a much smaller oscillation at infinity on the physical scale. We have not proved that the amplitude of the oscillation is actually nonzero; a formal calculation suggests that it is exponentially small.

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