|  The continuous spectrum of the water-wave problem in a pond with a shoal shore17/04/2009 Friday 17th April 2009, 11:00 (Room P3.10, Mathematics Building) 
                  
                  
                    MoreSergey Nazarov, Laboratory for Mathematical Modelling of Wave Phenomena, Institute of  Problems in Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
 
 
 The problem on water-waves is described, within the linearized theory, by a boundary-value problem for the Laplace equation with a spectral boundary condition of Steklov type. The spectrum of the problem is known to be be continuous in infinite channels and layers. In this talk, we will demonstrate that the spectrum can have a nonempty continuous component also in a pond with a gently sloped bottom topography due to the boundary singularity of cuspidal edge type. |