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Soliton resolution conjecture for the Benjamin-Ono equation: Explicit $L^\infty$ asymptotic error formula

Analysis of PDEs 2026-05-26 v1

Abstract

We prove the soliton resolution conjecture for the Benjamin-Ono (BO) equation with an explicit error bound in the LL^\infty-norm. For the finite-order multisoliton case, the explicit LL^\infty-norm errors are bounded by O(t14(112s))\mathcal{O}(|t|^{-\frac{1}{4}(1-\frac{1}{2s})}) with initial data u0Hs,α(R)u_0 \in H^{s,\alpha}(\mathbb{R}) for any s>1/2s>1/2 and α1\alpha \geqslant 1. For the infinite-order multisoliton case, the explicit LL^\infty-norm errors are bounded by O(t1/3)\mathcal{O}(|t|^{-1/3}) when u0u_0 is expressed as an infinite sum of soliton profiles. Recently, Gassot, G\'erard, and Miller (arXiv:2601.10488, 2026) proved an implicit error bound in H1H^1-norm of the soliton resolution in the finite-order multisoliton case with u0H1,1(R)u_0 \in H^{1,1}\left( \mathbb{R} \right), requiring extra condition x2u0(x)=c0+v0(x),c0R,v0(x)L2(R)x^2u_0(x) = c_0 + v_0(x), c_0\in \mathbb{R}, v_0(x) \in L^2(\mathbb{R}). In the infinite-order multisoliton case, Gassot and G\'erard (arXiv:2603.15419, 2026) proved an implicit error bound in LL^\infty-norm for the soliton resolution when u0u_0 is expressed as an infinite sum of soliton profiles. Notably, they highlighted the inverse spectral problem for the Lax operators as an interesting open problem. In order to address the soliton resolution with the explicit error in LL^\infty-norm for finite/infinite-order multisoliton, there exist many open problems concerning initial conditions, error accuracy, and other related issues. Solving these open problems is the central objective of our work. In order to enlarge the initial data space and remove the extra conditions, we employ Kato-Rellich theorem to transform the soliton resolution conjecture into an error estimation problem between the sequence and the solution. It is worth noting that we solve the open inverse spectral problem for the Lax operator by constructing a trace-class operator based on the discrete spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2605.25327,
  title  = {Soliton resolution conjecture for the Benjamin-Ono equation: Explicit $L^\infty$ asymptotic error formula},
  author = {Hong-Yu Pan and Shou-Fu Tian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.25327},
  year   = {2026}
}

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26 pages. Comments are welcome!

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