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Sharp well-posedness for a coupled system of mKdV type equations

Analysis of PDEs 2020-03-31 v1

Abstract

We consider the initial value problem associated to a system consisting modified Korteweg-de Vries type equations tv+x3v+x(vw2)=0,  v(x,0)=ϕ(x), \partial_tv + \partial_x^3v + \partial_x(vw^2) =0,\ \ v(x,0)=\phi(x), tw+αx3w+x(v2w)=0,  w(x,0)=ψ(x), \partial_tw + \alpha\partial_x^3w + \partial_x(v^2w) =0,\ \ w(x,0)=\psi(x), and prove the local well-posedness results for given data in low regularity Sobolev spaces Hs(I ⁣R)×Hk(I ⁣R)H^{s}(\textrm{I}\!\textrm{R})\times H^{k}(\textrm{I}\!\textrm{R}), s,k>12s,k> -\frac12 and sk1/2|s-k|\leq 1/2, for α0,1\alpha\neq 0,1. Also, we prove that: (I) the solution mapping that takes initial data to the solution fails to be C3C^3 at the origin, when s<1/2s<-1/2 or k<1/2k<-1/2 or sk>2|s-k|>2; (II) the trilinear estimates used in the proof of the local well-posedness theorem fail to hold when (a) s2k>1s-2k>1 or k<1/2k<-1/2 (b) k2s>1k-2s>1 or s<1/2s<-1/2; (c) s=k=1/2s=k=-1/2 ; (III) the local well-posedness result is sharp in a sense that we can not reduce the proof of the trilinear estimates, proving some related bilinear estimates (as in Tao [19]).

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@article{arxiv.2003.12619,
  title  = {Sharp well-posedness for a coupled system of mKdV type equations},
  author = {Xavier Carvajal and Liliana Esquivel and Raphael Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12619},
  year   = {2020}
}

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22 pages, 1 figure

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