Solitary wave solutions and global well-posedness for a coupled system of gKdV equations (Q2044671)

In this paper, the authors analyze the local and global well-posedness of an initial value problem associated with a coupled system of generalized KdV equations. The proof is based on a sharp Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality obtained for this problem. Furthermore, the paper provides an appropriate characterization of the ground states of the KdV-KdV system considered. Finally, under some restrictions on the coefficients appearing in the definition of the functional \(H(u,v)\) of degree \(2k+2\) defined in Equation (1.6), the authors also establish a result on orbital instability of such ground states. In the case that \(k>2\), the main difficulty in proving this result consisted in establishing the spectral properties of the linearized operator \(\mathcal{L}\) defined in (5.6).