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Non-uniqueness for the ab-family of equations

Analysis of PDEs 2020-02-04 v1

Abstract

We study the cubic ab-family of equations, which includes both the Fokas-Olver-Rosenau-Qiao (FORQ) and the Novikov (NE) equations. For a0a\neq0, it is proved that there exist initial data in the Sobolev space HsH^s, s<3/2s<3/2, with non-unique solutions. Multiple solutions are constructed by studying the collision of 2-peakon solutions. Furthermore, we prove the novel phenomenon that for some members of the family, collision between 2-peakons can occur even if the "faster" peakon is in front of the "slower" peakon.

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@article{arxiv.2002.00399,
  title  = {Non-uniqueness for the ab-family of equations},
  author = {John Holmes and Rajan Puri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00399},
  year   = {2020}
}