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Well-posedness for the fifth order KdV equation

Analysis of PDEs 2011-01-21 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we establish the well-posedness for the Cauchy problem of the fifth order KdV equation with low regularity data. The nonlinear term has more derivatives than can be recovered by the smoothing effect, which implies that the iteration argument is not available when initial data is given in HsH^s for any sRs \in \mathbb{R}. So we give initial data in Hs,a=HsH˙aH^{s,a}=H^s \cap \dot{H}^a when asa \leq s and a0a \leq 0. Then we can use the Fourier restriction norm method to obtain the local well-posedness in Hs,aH^{s,a} when smax{1/4,2a2}s \geq \max\{-1/4, -2a-2 \}, 3/2<a1/4-3/2<a \leq -1/4 and (s,a)(1/4,7/8)(s,a) \neq (-1/4,-7/8). This result is optimal in some sense.

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@article{arxiv.1011.3956,
  title  = {Well-posedness for the fifth order KdV equation},
  author = {Takamori Kato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3956},
  year   = {2011}
}
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