Gain of regularity for a Korteweg-de Vries--Kawahara type equation.
Inspired by the work of Zhidkov on the KdV equation, we perform a construction of weighted Gaussian measures associated to the higher order conservation laws of the Benjamin-Ono equation. The resulting measures are supported by Sobolev spaces of increasing regularity. We also prove a property on the support of these measures leading to the conjecture that they are indeed invariant by the flow of the Benjamin-Ono equation.
We describe some recent results on a specific nonlinear hydrodynamical problem where the geometric approach gives insight into a variety of aspects.
The global well-posedness of the initial-value problem associated to the coupled system of BBM-Burgers equations (*) in the classical Sobolev spaces Hs(R) x Hs(R) for s ≥ 2 is studied. Furthermore we find decay estimates of the solutions of (*) in the norm Lq(R) x Lq(R), 2 ≤ q ≤ ∞ for general initial data. Model (*) is motivated by a work due to Gear and Grimshaw [10] who considered strong interaction of weakly nonlinear long waves governed by a coupled system of KdV equations.