We provide a new analysis of the Boltzmann equation with constant collision kernel in two space dimensions. The scaling-critical Lebesgue space is $L^2_{x,v}$; we prove global well-posedness and a version of scattering, assuming that the data $f_0$ i
s sufficiently smooth and localized, and the $L^2_{x,v}$ norm of $f_0$ is sufficiently small. The proof relies upon a new scaling-critical bilinear spacetime estimate for the collision gain term in Boltzmanns equation, combined with a novel application of the Kaniel-Shinbrot iteration.
Considering the Cauchy problem for the modified finite-depth-fluid equation $partial_tu-G_delta(partial_x^2u)mp u^2u_x=0, u(0)=u_0$, where $G_delta f=-i ft ^{-1}[coth(2pi delta xi)-frac{1}{2pi delta xi}]ft f$, $deltages 1$, and $u$ is a real-valued f
unction, we show that it is uniformly globally well-posed if $u_0 in H^s (sgeq 1/2)$ with $ orm{u_0}_{L^2}$ sufficiently small for all $delta ges 1$. Our result is sharp in the sense that the solution map fails to be $C^3$ in $H^s (s<1/2)$. Moreover, we prove that for any $T>0$, its solution converges in $C([0,T]; H^s)$ to that of the modified Benjamin-Ono equation if $delta$ tends to $+infty$.
We prove global well-posedness of the fifth-order Korteweg-de Vries equation on the real line for initial data in $H^{-1}(mathbb{R})$. By comparison, the optimal regularity for well-posedness on the torus is known to be $L^2(mathbb{R}/mathbb{Z})$.
In order to prove this result, we develop a strategy for integrating the local smoothing effect into the method of commuting flows introduced previously in the context of KdV. It is this synthesis that allows us to go beyond the known threshold on the torus.
In this paper we show global well-posedness near vacuum for the binary-ternary Boltzmann equation. The binary-ternary Boltzmann equation provides a correction term to the classical Boltzmann equation, taking into account both binary and ternary inter
actions of particles, and may serve as a more accurate description model for denser gases in non-equilibrium. Well-posedness of the classical Boltzmann equation and, independently, the purely ternary Boltzmann equation follow as special cases. To prove global well-posedness, we use a Kaniel-Shinbrot iteration and related work to approximate the solution of the nonlinear equation by monotone sequences of supersolutions and subsolutions. This analysis required establishing new convolution type estimates to control the contribution of the ternary collisional operator to the model. We show that the ternary operator allows consideration of softer potentials than the one binary operator, consequently our solution to the ternary correction of the Boltzmann equation preserves all the properties of the binary interactions solution. These results are novel for collisional operators of monoatomic gases with either hard or soft potentials that model both binary and ternary interactions.
We prove that the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (both focusing and defocusing) is globally well-posed in $H^s(mathbb R)$ for any regularity $s>-frac12$. Well-posedness has long been known for $sgeq 0$, see [51], but not previously for any $s<0
$. The scaling-critical value $s=-frac12$ is necessarily excluded here, since instantaneous norm inflation is known to occur [11, 38, 46]. We also prove (in a parallel fashion) well-posedness of the real- and complex-valued modified Korteweg-de Vries equations in $H^s(mathbb R)$ for any $s>-frac12$. The best regularity achieved previously was $sgeq tfrac14$; see [15, 24, 32, 38]. An essential ingredient in our arguments is the demonstration of a local smoothing effect for both equations, with a gain of derivatives matching that of the underlying linear equation. This in turn rests on the discovery of a one-parameter family of microscopic conservation laws that remain meaningful at this low regularity.