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On the wellposedness of the defocusing mKdV equation below $L^{2}$

Analysis of PDEs 2018-01-25 v1

Abstract

We prove that the renormalized defocusing mKdV equation on the circle is locally in time C0C^{0}-wellposed on the Fourier Lebesgue space Fp{\mathcal{F}\ell}^p for any 2<p<2 < p < \infty. The result implies that the defocusing mKdV equation itself is illposed on these spaces since the renormalizing phase factor becomes infinite. The proof is based on the fact that the mKdV equation is an integrable PDE whose Hamiltonian is in the NLS hierarchy. A key ingredient is a novel way of representing the bi-infinite sequence of frequencies of the renormalized defocusing mKdV equation, allowing to analytically extend them to Fp{\mathcal{F}\ell}^p for any 2p<2 \le p < \infty and to deduce asymptotics for n±n \to \pm \infty.

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@article{arxiv.1606.07052,
  title  = {On the wellposedness of the defocusing mKdV equation below $L^{2}$},
  author = {Thomas Kappeler and Jan-Cornelius Molnar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07052},
  year   = {2018}
}

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