Uniqueness of 1D Generalized Bi-Schr\"odinger Flow

We establish the uniqueness of a smooth generalized bi-Schr\"odinger flow from the one-dimensional flat torus into a compact locally Hermitian symmetric space. The governing equation, which is satisfied by sections of the pull-back bundle induced from the flow, is a fourth-order nonlinear dispersive partial differential equation with loss of derivatives. To show the uniqueness, we adopt an extrinsic approach to compare two solutions via an isometric embedding into an ambient Euclidean space. We introduce an energy modifying the classical $H^2$-energy for the difference of two solutions, the detailed estimate of which enables us to eliminate the difficulty of the loss of derivatives. In particular, we demonstrate how to decide the form of the modification by exploiting the geometric structure of the locally Hermitian symmetric space.