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Scattering of the 3D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation

Analysis of PDEs 2026-04-28 v1

Abstract

We consider the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in space dimension 3: {tu+xΔu+xu22=0u(t=0)=u0 \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \partial_t u + \partial_x \Delta u + \partial_x \frac{u^2}{2} = 0 \\ u(t = 0) = u_0 \end{array} \right. where u:(t,x,y)R×R×R2u(t,x,y)Ru : (t, x, y) \in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^2 \mapsto u(t, x, y) \in \mathbb{R}, and Δ=x2+Δy\Delta = \partial_x^2 + \Delta_y is the full Laplacian. We show that, for any u0u_0 satisfying (1+x2+y2)u0H11 \Vert (1 + x^2 + |y|^2) u_0 \Vert_{H^1} \ll 1 then the global solution exhibits scattering in H1H^1. This is done using the method of space-time resonances, and more precisely the partial symmetries approach [GPW23] in order to treat the anisotropy. We introduce well suited anisotropic weighted norms, prove dispersive decay estimates adapted to these norms and an a priori estimate allowing to close by a bootstrap argument.

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@article{arxiv.2604.22957,
  title  = {Scattering of the 3D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation},
  author = {Philippe Anjolras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.22957},
  year   = {2026}
}

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