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Sharp Global well-posedness for KdV and modified KdV on $\R$ and $\T$

Analysis of PDEs 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

The initial value problems for the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) and modified KdV (mKdV) equations under periodic and decaying boundary conditions are considered. These initial value problems are shown to be globally well-posed in all L2L^2-based Sobolev spaces HsH^s where local well-posedness is presently known, apart from the H1/4(R)H^{{1/4}} (\R) endpoint for mKdV. The result for KdV relies on a new method for constructing almost conserved quantities using multilinear harmonic analysis and the available local-in-time theory. Miura's transformation is used to show that global well-posedness of modified KdV is implied by global well-posedness of the standard KdV equation.

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@article{arxiv.math/0110045,
  title  = {Sharp Global well-posedness for KdV and modified KdV on $\R$ and $\T$},
  author = {J. Colliander and M. Keel and G. Staffilani and H. Takaoka and T. Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0110045},
  year   = {2007}
}

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