Continuity and Analyticity for the Generalized Benjamin–Ono Equation

This work mainly focuses on the continuity and analyticity for the generalized Benjamin–Ono (g-BO) equation. From the local well-posedness results for g-BO equation, we know that its solutions depend continuously on their initial data. In the present paper, we further show that such dependence is not uniformly continuous in Sobolev spaces Hs(R) with s>3/2. We also provide more information about the stability of the data-solution map, i.e., the solution map for g-BO equation is Hölder continuous in Hr-topology for all 0≤r<s with exponent α depending on s and r. Finally, applying the generalized Ovsyannikov type theorem and the basic properties of Sobolev–Gevrey spaces, we prove the Gevrey regularity and analyticity for the g-BO equation. In addition, by the symmetry of the spatial variable, we obtain a lower bound of the lifespan and the continuity of the data-to-solution map.

A proof of validity for multiphase Whitham modulation theory

It is proved that approximations which are obtained as solutions of the multiphase Whitham modulation equations stay close to solutions of the original equation on a natural time scale. The class of nonlinear wave equations chosen for the starting point is coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations. These equations are not in general integrable, but they have an explicit family of multiphase wavetrains that generate multiphase Whitham equations, which may be elliptic, hyperbolic, or of mixed type. Due to the change of type, the function space set-up is based on Gevrey spaces with initial data analytic in a strip in the complex plane. In these spaces a Cauchy–Kowalevskaya-like existence and uniqueness theorem is proved. Building on this theorem and higher-order approximations to Whitham theory, a rigorous comparison of solutions, of the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations and the multiphase Whitham modulation equations, is obtained.