Well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation at the critical regularity. (Q637003)

The author proves well-posedness of the initial-value problem to the Korteweg-de Vries equation \(u_{t}+u_{xxx}u=(u^2)_{x}\) in \(H^{-3/4}(\mathbb {R})\) and to the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation \(v_{t}+v_{xxx}v=\pm (v^3)_{x}\) in \(H^{1/4}(\mathbb {R})\). Similar results were independently obtained by \textit{Zihua Guo} [J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 91, No. 6, 583--597 (2009; Zbl 1173.35110)].