Spatial Analyticity of Solutions to Korteweg–de Vries Type Equations

Abstract

The Korteweg–de Vries equation (KdV) is a mathematical model of waves on shallow water surfaces. It is given as third-order nonlinear partial differential equation and plays a very important role in the theory of nonlinear waves. It was obtained by Boussinesq in 1877, and a detailed analysis was performed by Korteweg and de Vries in 1895. In this article, by using multi-linear estimates in Bourgain type spaces, we prove the local well-posedness of the initial value problem associated with the Korteweg–de Vries equations. The solution is established online for analytic initial data w0 that can be extended as holomorphic functions in a strip around the x-axis. A procedure for constructing a global solution is proposed, which improves upon earlier results.