The Cauchy problem for a fifth-order dispersive equation (Q1724047)

Summary: This paper is devoted to studying the Cauchy problem for a fifth-order equation. We prove that it is locally well-posed for the initial data in the Sobolev space \(H^s(\mathbb{R})\) with \(s \geq 1 / 4\). We also establish the ill-posedness for the initial data in \(H^s(\mathbb{R})\) with \(s < 1 / 4\). Thus, the regularity requirement for the fifth-order dispersive equations \(s \geq 1 / 4\) is sharp.