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The periodic Cauchy problem for Novikov's equation

Analysis of PDEs 2010-09-10 v1

Abstract

We study the periodic Cauchy problem for an integrable equation with cubic nonlinearities introduced by V. Novikov. Like the Camassa-Holm and Degasperis-Procesi equations, Novikov's equation has Lax pair representations and admits peakon solutions, but it has nonlinear terms that are cubic, rather than quadratic. We show the local well-posedness of the problem in Sobolev spaces and existence and uniqueness of solutions for all time using orbit invariants. Furthermore we prove a Cauchy-Kowalevski type theorem for this equation, that establishes the existence and uniqueness of real analytic solutions.

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@article{arxiv.1009.1820,
  title  = {The periodic Cauchy problem for Novikov's equation},
  author = {Feride Tiglay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.1820},
  year   = {2010}
}