Local well-posedness for the gKdV equation on the background of a bounded function (Q6044148)

The author thoroughly discusses well-posedness, unconditional uniqueness and global-in-time existence of solutions for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation \[ v_t+v_{xxx}+f(v)_x=0 \] on the real line, for general nonlinearities \(f\) with suitable supplementary assumptions for global existence. This approach permits him to study perturbations of kink and periodic traveling wave solutions of various modifications of the classical Korteweg-de Vries equation. The results are generally obtained for the Sobolev spaces \(H^s(\mathbb R)\) with \(s>1/2\).