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Local well-posedness for the gKdV equation on the background of a bounded function

Analysis of PDEs 2021-05-03 v1

Abstract

We prove the local well-posedness for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation in Hs(R)H^s(\mathbb{R}), s>1/2s>1/2, under general assumptions on the nonlinearity f(x)f(x), on the background of an Lt,xL^\infty_{t,x}-function Ψ(t,x)\Psi(t,x), with Ψ(t,x)\Psi(t,x) satisfying some suitable conditions. As a consequence of our estimates, we also obtain the unconditional uniqueness of the solution in Hs(R)H^s(\mathbb{R}). This result not only gives us a framework to solve the gKdV equation around a Kink, for example, but also around a periodic solution, that is, to consider localized non-periodic perturbations of a periodic solution. As a direct corollary, we obtain the unconditional uniqueness of the gKdV equation in Hs(R)H^s(\mathbb{R}) for s>1/2s>1/2. We also prove global existence in the energy space H1(R)H^1(\mathbb{R}), in the case where the nonlinearity satisfies that f(x)1\vert f''(x)\vert\lesssim 1.

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@article{arxiv.2104.15126,
  title  = {Local well-posedness for the gKdV equation on the background of a bounded function},
  author = {José Manuel Palacios},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.15126},
  year   = {2021}
}

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