Do Young Kwak
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Mathematics
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Professor Do Young Kwak's research lab specializes in nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations, with a primary focus on the well-posedness theory of higher-order Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) and modified KdV equations on periodic domains. The lab investigates local and global well-posedness in low-regularity Sobolev spaces, employing advanced tools such as the Fourier restriction norm method and frequency-localized energy estimates. A central theme is overcoming the lack of smoothing effects in periodic settings, which distinguishes their work from non-periodic counterparts. The lab also explores Hamiltonian structures and integrable systems in the context of water wave models.
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15We consider the fifth-order modified Korteweg–de Vries (modified KdV) equation under the periodic boundary condition. We prove the local well-posedness in [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], via the energy method. The main tool is the short-time Fourier restriction norm method, which was first introduced in its current form by Ionescu, Kenig and Tataru [Global well-posedness of the KP-I initial-value problem in the energy space, Invent. Math. 173(2) (2008) 265–304]. Besides, we use the fre
Consider the Hamiltonian <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="a b c d"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>a</mml:mi> <mml:mi>b</mml:mi> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">abcd</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> system in one dimension, with data posed in the energy space <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="
This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of the modified Kawahara equation (posed on \mathbb{T} ), which is well-known as a model of capillary-gravity waves in an infinitely long canal over a flat bottom in a long wave regime [26]. We show in this paper some well-posedness results, mainly the global well-posedness in L^{2}(\mathbb{T}) . The proof basically relies on the idea introduced in Takaoka-Tsutsumi's works [60,69], which weakens the non-trivial resonance in the cubic interactions (
The Boussinesq $abcd$ system is a 4-parameter set of equations posed in $\mathbb{R}_t \times \mathbb{R}_x$, originally derived by Bona, Chen and Saut as first order 2-wave approximations of the incompressible and irrotational, two dimensional water wave equations in the shallow water wave regime, in the spirit of the original Boussinesq derivation. Among many particular regimes, depending each of them in terms of the value of the parameters $(a,b,c,d)$ present in the equations, the "generic" reg
We consider the Cauchy problem for the fifth-order modified Korteweg-de Vries equation (mKdV) on $ \mathbb T $. The fifth-order mKdV is an asymptotic model for shallow surface waves, as is the second equation in the mKdV hierarchy. In contrast with the non-periodic case, periodic solutions for dispersive equations do not have a (local) smoothing effect, which becomes a major obstacle to considering the Cauchy problem for dispersive equations on $ \mathbb T $.We establish global well-posedness of
This paper is a continuation of the paper \emph{Low regularity Cauchy problem for the fifth-order modified KdV equations on $\mathbb{T}$}. In this paper, we consider the fifth-order equation in the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) hierarchy as following: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_t u - \partial_x^5 u + 30u^2\partial_x u + 20 u\partial_x u \partial_x^3u + 10u \partial_x^3 u = 0, \hspace{1em} (t,x) \in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{T}, u(0,x) = u_0(x) \in H^s(\mathbb{T}) \end{cases}. \end{equati
In this paper, we consider the fifth-order modified Korteweg-de Vries (modified KdV) equation under the periodic boundary condition. We prove the local well-posedness in $H^s(\mathbb T)$, $s > 2$, via the energy method. The main tool is the short-time Fourier restriction norm method, which was first introduced in its current form by Ionescu, Kenig and Tataru [Global well-posedness of the KP-I initial-value problem in the energy space, Invent. Math. 173 (2) (2008) 265--304]. Besides, we use th
We consider the Cauchy problem for the fifth-order modified Korteweg-de Vries equation (mKdV) under the periodic boundary condition. The fifth-order mKdV is an asymptotic model for shallow surface waves, and (in the perspective of integrable systems) the second equation in the mKdV hierarchy as well. In strong contrast with the non-periodic case, periodic solutions for dispersive equations do not have a (local) smoothing effect, and this observation becomes a major obstacle to considering the Ca
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