Decay of the radius of spatial analyticity for the modified KdV equation and the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with third order dispersion

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the spatial analyticity radius of solutions to the modified KdV and third-order dispersion nonlinear Schrödinger equations evolves over time, establishing bounds and demonstrating local well-posedness for analytic initial data.

Contribution

It proves local well-posedness for analytic data and provides new lower bounds on the analyticity radius decay over time for both equations, improving previous results for mKdV and presenting the first such bounds for tNLS.

Findings

Radius of analyticity remains constant up to a lifespan T_0.

Lower bound on analyticity radius decay as T^{-4/3} for mKdV.

Lower bound on analyticity radius decay as T^{-(4+ε)} for tNLS.

Abstract

We consider the initial value problems (IVPs) for the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation \begin{equation*} \label{mKdV} \left\{\begin{array}{l} \partial_t u+ \partial_x^3u+\mu u^2\partial_xu =0, \quad x\in\mathbb{R},\; t\in \mathbb{R} , \\ u(x,0) = u_0(x), \end{array}\right. \end{equation*} where $u$ is a real valued function and $\mu=\pm 1$, and the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with third order dispersion (tNLS equation in short) \begin{equation*} \label{t-NLS} \left\{\begin{array}{l} \partial_t v+i\alpha \partial_x^2v+\beta \partial_x^3v+i\gamma |v|^2v = 0, \quad x\in\mathbb{R},\; t\in\mathbb{R} , \\ v(x,0) = v_0(x), \end{array}\right. \end{equation*} where $\alpha, \beta$ and $\gamma$ are real constants and $v$ is a complex valued function. In both problems, the initial data $u_0$ and $v_0$ are analytic on $\mathbb{R}$ and have uniform radius of analyticity $\sigma_0$ in the space variable. We prove that the both IVPs are locally well-posed for such data by establishing an analytic version of the trilinear estimates, and showed that the radius of spatial analyticity of the solution remains the same $\sigma_0$ till some lifespan $0<T_0\le 1$. We also consider the evolution of the radius of spatial analyticity $\sigma(t)$ when the local solution extends globally in time and prove that for any time $T\ge T_0$ it is bounded from below by $c T^{-\frac43}$, for the mKdV equation in the defocusing case ($\mu = -1$) and by $c T^{-(4+\varepsilon)}$, $\varepsilon>0$, for the tNLS equation. The result for the mKdV equation improves the one obtained in [ J. L. Bona, Z. Gruji\'c and H. Kalisch, Algebraic lower bounds for the uniform radius of spatial analyticity for the generalized KdV equation, Ann Inst. H. Poincar\'e 22 (2005) 783--797] and, as far as we know, the result for the tNLS equation is the new one.