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On the asymptotic dynamics for the $L^2$-supercritical gKDV equation

Analysis of PDEs 2025-12-23 v2

Abstract

We study the L2L^2-supercritical generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation (gKdV) with nonlinearities p>5p>5. While local well-posedness in H1H^1 is classical, the long-time dynamics in the supercritical regime remains largely unexplored beyond small data global solutions, the construction of multi-solitons for any power and self-similar blow-up near the critical power p=5p=5. We develop a unified description of the non-solitonic region for arbitrary H1H^1 solutions, both global and blowing up. Our analysis shows that the asymptotic L2L^2 and LpL^p dynamics in this region is completely determined by the growth rate of the L2L^2 norm of the gradient (or, equivalently, the critical HspH^{s_p} norm). In particular, we prove sharp far-field decay on both half-lines and establish normalized local vanishing along sequences of times, with improved estimates in the case of even-power nonlinearities. A key ingredient is a new virial method that compensates for the possible unboundedness of the H1H^1 norm by exploiting the conservation of mass and a careful localization of the nonlinear flux. This yields quantitative versions of decay phenomena previously known only in subcritical settings, and it applies without any smallness or proximity-to-soliton assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.2511.16847,
  title  = {On the asymptotic dynamics for the $L^2$-supercritical gKDV equation},
  author = {Ricardo Freire and Claudio Muñoz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.16847},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

25 pages; Corrected typos, expanded proofs, added and updated references