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A remark on the well-posedness of the modified KdV equation in L2

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2024

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Justin Forlano*
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School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh, and The Maxwell Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King’s Buildings, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States (j.forlano@ed.ac.uk)
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Abstract

We study the real-valued modified KdV equation on the real line and the circle in both the focusing and the defocusing cases. By employing the method of commuting flows introduced by Killip and Vişan (2019), we prove global well-posedness in Hs for $0\leq s \lt \tfrac{1}{2}$. On the line, we show how the arguments in the recent article by Harrop-Griffiths, Killip, and Vişan (2020) may be simplified in the higher regularity regime $s\geq 0$. On the circle, we provide an alternative proof of the sharp global well-posedness in L2 due to Kappeler and Topalov (2005) and also extend this to the large-data focusing case.

Keywords

global well-posednessmodified Korteweg–de Vries equation

MSC classification

Primary: 35Q53: KdV-like equations (Korteweg-de Vries)
Secondary: 37K10: Completely integrable systems, integrability tests, bi-Hamiltonian structures, hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.)

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , First View , pp. 1 - 26
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Society of Edinburgh

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