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# Well-posedness for the BBM-equation in a quarter plane

• The so-called wave-maker problem for the $BBM$-equation is studied on the half-line. Improving on earlier results, global well-posedness is established for square-integrable initial data and boundary data that is only assumed to be locally bounded.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q35, 35A53, 76B03; Secondary: 35Q51, 35Q86, 76B15.

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