Sharp well-posedness for a coupled system of mKDV-type equations

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Abstract: We consider the initial value problem associated to a system consisting modified Korteweg-de Vries type equations �egin{equation*} �egin{cases} partial_tv + partial_x^3v + partial_x(vw^2) =0,&v(x,0)=phi(x),\ partial_tw + alphapartial_x^3w + partial_x(v^2w) =0,& w(x,0)=psi(x), end{cases} end{equation*} and prove the local well-posedness results for given data in low regularity Sobolev spaces Hs(mathbbR)imesHs(mathbbR), s>−frac12, for 0<alpha<1. Our result covers the whole scaling sub-critical range of Sobolev regularity contrary to the case alpha=1, where the local well-posedness holds only for sgeqfrac14. We also prove that the local well-posedness result is sharp in two different ways, viz., for s<−frac12 the key trilinear estimates used in the proof of the local well-posedness theorem fail to hold, and the flow-map that takes initial data to the solution fails to be C3 at the origin. These results hold for alpha>1 as well.












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