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Local well-posedness for the fifth-order KdV equations on $\mathbb{T}$

Analysis of PDEs 2016-02-12 v2

Abstract

This paper is a continuation of the paper \emph{Low regularity Cauchy problem for the fifth-order modified KdV equations on T\mathbb{T}}. In this paper, we consider the fifth-order equation in the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) hierarchy as following: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_t u - \partial_x^5 u + 30u^2\partial_x u + 20 u\partial_x u \partial_x^3u + 10u \partial_x^3 u = 0, \hspace{1em} (t,x) \in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{T}, u(0,x) = u_0(x) \in H^s(\mathbb{T}) \end{cases}. \end{equation*} We prove the local well-posedness of the fifth-order KdV equation for low regularity Sobolev initial data via the energy method. This paper follows almost same idea and argument as in the paper \emph{Low regularity Cauchy problem for the fifth-order modified KdV equations on T\mathbb{T}}. Precisely, we use some conservation laws of the KdV Hamiltonians to observe the direction which the nonlinear solution evolves to. Besides, it is essential to use the short time Xs,bX^{s,b} spaces to control the nonlinear terms due to \emph{high ×\times low \Rightarrow high} interaction component in the non-resonant nonlinear term. We also use the localized version of the modified energy in order to obtain the energy estimate. As an immediate result from a conservation law in the scaling sub-critical problem, we have the global well-posedness result in the energy space H2H^2.

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@article{arxiv.1510.01017,
  title  = {Local well-posedness for the fifth-order KdV equations on $\mathbb{T}$},
  author = {Chulkwang Kwak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01017},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

46 pages. Final version. Introduction and typos are modified. Accepted for publication in J. Differential Equations. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1510.00464

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