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    LEVI-CIVITA THEORY FOR IRROTATIONAL WATER-WAVES IN A ONE-DIMENSIONAL CHANNEL AND THE COMPLEX KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION

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    We review the Levi-Civita theory, which reduces the study of the irrotational flow in a one-dimensional channel or the solution of a non-linear differential-functional partial differential equation for the velocity potential. We show how, by considering small perturbations in a shallow water channel, we can reduce the non-linear differential-functional equation to a complex Korteweg-de Vries equation which, for almost horizontal flow and for initial conditions independent of the vertical variable, reduces to the usual one

    Multiple-scale analysis of discrete nonlinear partial difference equations: the reduction of the lattice potential KdV

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    We consider multiple lattices and functions defined on them. We introduce slow varying conditions for functions defined on the,lattice and express the variation of a function in terms of an asymptotic expansion with respect to the slow varying lattices. We use these results to perform multiple-scale reduction of the lattice potential Korteweg-de Vries equation
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