Extension of the corner-singularity strategy to general corner geometries

Extend the conformal-mapping and singular-decomposition strategy used for a sharp bottom step to more general corner geometries, including explicit shallow-water-parameter dependence and corresponding elliptic regularity estimates.

Background

For the sharp step, the paper uses an explicit Schwarz–Christoffel conformal map to decompose the harmonic potential into an H²-regular component and an explicit corner-singular component. This permits precise tracking of the dependence on the shallow-water parameter and the step height. The authors identify extending this strategy beyond the step geometry as an unresolved problem.

References

We therefore expect the same strategy to extend to more general corner geometries, a question that we leave for future work.

The shallow--water limit of linear water waves over a discontinuous bottom  (2609.10170 - Paulsen, 9 Sep 2026) in Section 2.3, paragraph introducing the step-geometry elliptic estimate