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Improved lower bound for the radius of analyticity for the modified KdV equation

Analysis of PDEs 2024-06-13 v1

Abstract

We investigate the initial value problem (IVP) associated to the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation (mKdV) in the defocusing scenario: \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{l} \partial_t u+ \partial_x^3u-u^2\partial_x(u) = 0, \quad x,t\in\mathbb{R}, \\ u(x,0) = u_0(x), \end{array}\right. \end{equation*} where uu is a real valued function and the initial data u0u_0 is analytic on R\mathbb{R} and has uniform radius of analyticity σ0\sigma_0 in the spatial variable. It is well-known that the solution uu preserves its analyticity with the same radius σ0\sigma_0 for at least some time span 0<T010<T_0\le 1. This local result was obtained in [Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. (2024), 31--68] by proving a trilinear estimate in the Gevrey spaces Gσ,sG^{\sigma, s}, s14s\geq \frac14. Global in time behaviour of the solution and algebraic lower bound of the evolution of the radius of analyticity was also studied in authors' earlier works in [Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. (2024), 31--68] and [J. Evol. Equ. 24 No. 42 (2024)] by constructing almost conserved quantities in the classical Gevrey space with H1H^1 and H2H^2 levels of Sobolev regularities. The present study aims to construct a new almost conservation law in the Gevrey space defined with a weight function cosh(σξ)\cosh(\sigma|\xi|) and use it demonstrate that the local solution uu extends globally in time, and the radius of spatial analyticity is bounded from below by cT12c T^{-\frac{1}{2}}, for any time TT0T\geq T_0. The outcome of this paper represents an improvement on the one achieved by the authors' previous work in [J. Evol. Equ. 24 No. 42 (2024)].

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@article{arxiv.2406.08400,
  title  = {Improved lower bound for the radius of analyticity for the modified KdV equation},
  author = {Renata O. Figueira and Mahendra Panthee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08400},
  year   = {2024}
}

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