Global well-posedness for high-order Landau-Lifshitz equation (Q2220105)

The paper alludes to the one-dimensional Landau-Lifshitz equation, to motivate to consider the semilinear fourth order diffusion equation \[ S_{t}=S\times S_{xx}-S_{xxxx}+A\left|S_{x}\right|^{2}S_{xx} \] for \(S:[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}^{3}\), \(A,T>0\). However, in contrast to the Landau-Lifshitz equation this equation does not encode the preservation of \(\left|S\right|\). It is indeed a semi-linear perturbation of the linear fourth order diffusion equation \(S_{t}=-S_{xxxx}\), for which we have indeed maximal regularity. A number of estimates are shown for sufficiently smooth solutions. Based on these, the existence of a local-in-time solution for sufficiently smooth initial data is then approached by convergence considerations for trigonometric expansion on intervals of increasing size. The existence is then argued to be global. The paper concludes with a uniqueness argument for such a global solution.