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Weak Continuity of the Flow Map for the Benjamin-Ono Equation on the Line

Analysis of PDEs 2009-10-08 v2

Abstract

In this paper we show that the floow map of the Benjamin-Ono equation on the line is weakly continuous in L2(R), using "local smoothing" estimates. L2(R) is believed to be a borderline space for the local well-posedness theory of this equation. In the periodic case, Molinet [27] has recently proved that the flow map of the Benjamin-Ono equation is not weakly continuous in L2(T). Our results are in line with previous work on the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation, where Goubet and Molinet [11] showed weak continuity in L2(R) and Molinet [28] showed lack of weak continuity in L2(T).

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@article{arxiv.0909.0793,
  title  = {Weak Continuity of the Flow Map for the Benjamin-Ono Equation on the Line},
  author = {Shangbin Cui and Carlos E. Kenig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0793},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

34 pages, no figures. This new version modifies the previous one in accordance with the referee's comments