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

TL;DR

This paper proves sharp ill-posedness results for the KdV and mKdV equations on the torus, showing discontinuity of solution maps in low regularity spaces and constructing weak solutions in L^2.

Contribution

It introduces new a priori bounds for solutions, enabling the construction of weak solutions and establishing sharp ill-posedness results for KdV and mKdV.

Findings

Discontinuity of solution maps for s<0 (mKdV) and s<-1 (KdV).

Construction of weak solutions in L^2.

Validation of weak solutions by Kappeler and Topalov.

Abstract

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.