Regularity results on the flow maps of periodic dispersive Burgers type equations and the Gravity-Capillary equations

TL;DR

This paper establishes optimal regularity and Lipschitz continuity of flow maps for periodic dispersive Burgers and gravity-capillary equations, using paradifferential calculus and gauge transformations.

Contribution

It introduces a paradifferential generalization of the Cole-Hopf transform and extends stability results for paradifferential operators, proving optimal regularity for these dispersive PDEs.

Findings

Flow map for dispersive Burgers is Lipschitz on bounded sets in Sobolev spaces.

Flow map for gravity-capillary water waves is Lipschitz with optimal regularity.

Results confirm optimality of previous bounds in the literature.

Abstract

In the first part of this paper we prove that the flow associated to a dispersive Burgers equation with a non local term of the form $|D|^{\alpha-1} \partial_x u$, $\alpha \in [1,+\infty[$ is Lipschitz from bounded sets of $H^s_0(\mathbb{T};\mathbb{R})$ to $C^0([0,T],H^{s-(2-\alpha)^+}_0(\mathbb{T};\mathbb{R}))$ for $T>0$ and $s>\lceil \frac{\alpha}{\alpha-1}\rceil-\frac{1}{2}$, where $H^s_0$ are the Sobolev spaces of functions with $0$ mean value, proving that the result obtained in [37] is optimal on the torus. The proof relies on a paradifferential generalization of a complex Cole-Hopf gauge transformation introduced by T.Tao in [43] for the Benjamin-Ono equation. For this we prove a generalization of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula for flows of hyperbolic paradifferential equations and prove the stability of the class of paradifferential operators modulo more regular remainders, under conjugation by such flows. For this we prove a new characterization of paradifferential operators in the spirit of Beals [9]. In the second part of this paper we use a paradifferential version of the previous method to prove that a re-normalization of the flow of the one dimensional periodic gravity capillary equation is Lipschitz from bounded sets of $H^s$ to $C^0([0,T],H^{s-\frac{1}{2}})$ for $T>0$ and $s>3+\frac{1}{2}$. This proves that the result obtained in [37] is optimal for the water waves system.