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In the first part of this paper, the author addresses the question of local well-posedness for the periodic generalized KdV intial value problem (IVP) \[ \partial_t + \partial^3_x u + \lambda u^k \partial_xu = 0,\qquad u(x,0) = \phi(x), \quad x \in T, \;t \in\mathbb{R}, \] where \(\lambda\) is a real number, \(\kappa\) is a natural number, and \(\phi\) belongs to the energy space \(H^1\). The study of well-posedness in the periodic case, with intial data \(\phi \in H^s,s \leq 3/2\) was started by \textit{J. Bourgain} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 3, 209-262 (1993; Zbl 0737.35098)]. The author proves that the weak solution found by Bourgain is unique. Moreover, he shows that for any \(\kappa\), the IVP is locally well-posed in \(H^s,s \leq 1\), and the solution belongs to the metric space \(X_{\kappa}^{s,1/2}\). In particular, this implies global well-posedness when \(\kappa=3\). In the second part of the paper, the author continues the study of growth of high Sobolev norms of solutions to certain dispersive differential equations. He proves the polynomial, that bounds the \(H^s\) norm of the solution to the periodic generalized KdV equation, is of degree not greater than \(2s\). In the introduction he gives a very good survey of results in these fields.