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Well-posedness and ill-posedness of the fifth order modifed KdV equation

Analysis of PDEs 2007-11-08 v1

Abstract

We consider the initial value problem of the fifth order modified KdV equation on the Sobolev spaces. \partial_t u - \partial_x^5u + c_1\partial_x^3(u^3) + c_2u\partial_x u\partial_x^2 u + c_3uu\partial_x^3 u =0, u(x,0)= u_0(x) where u:R\timesRR u:R\timesR \to R and cjc_j's are real. We show the local well-posedness in H^s(R) for s \geq 3/4 via the contraction principle on Xs,bX^{s,b} space. Also, we show that the solution map from data to the solutions fails to be uniformly continuous below H3/4(R)H^{3/4}(R). The counter example is obtained by approximating the fifth order mKdV equation by the cubic NLS equation.

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@article{arxiv.0711.1060,
  title  = {Well-posedness and ill-posedness of the fifth order modifed KdV equation},
  author = {Soonsik Kwon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.1060},
  year   = {2007}
}

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