Sharp ill-posedness results for the KdV and mKdV equations on the torus

Luc Molinet (1)

1 LMPT - Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Physique Théorique

We establish a new a priori bound for $ L^2 $-bounded sequences of solutions to the mKdV equations on the torus. This first enable us to construct weak solutions in $ L^2$ for this equation and to check that the "solutions" constructed by Kappeler and Topalov in the defocusing case satisfy the equation in some weak sense. In a second time, we prove that the solution-map associated with the mKdV and the KdV equation are discontinuous for the $ H^s(\T) $ topology for respectively $ s<0$ and $ s<-1$. These last results are sharp.

Mots clés: KdV equation; mKdV equation; ill-posedness; weak solutions

Domaines: Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]

Luc Molinet. Sharp ill-posedness results for the KdV and mKdV equations on the torus. 2011. ⟨hal-00593976v2⟩