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Soonsik Kwon

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Mathematics

About the Lab

Professor Soonsik Kwon's research lab specializes in nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations, with a focus on the well-posedness, stability, and long-time dynamics of solutions to equations such as the nonlinear Schrödinger, Korteweg–de Vries, and Vlasov–Poisson systems. The lab develops advanced analytical techniques—particularly infinite iteration of normal form reductions and refined multilinear estimates—to establish unconditional well-posedness and modified scattering results. A central theme is understanding the interplay between symmetry, critical thresholds (e.g., mass or regularity), and the formation or stability of solitons and blow-up solutions.

nonlinear dispersive PDEsnormal form reductionswell-posednesssoliton stabilitymodified scattering

Research Overview

Papers
65
Total Citations
681
Papers (5y)
18
Primary Field
Mathematics

Research Output Trend

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Publications per year (5y)
18total
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Citations per year (5y)
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|73 citations·2013
Poincaré-Dulac Normal Form Reduction for Unconditional Well-Posedness of the Periodic Cubic NLS
Zihua Guo, Soonsik Kwon, Tadahiro Oh
SJR Q1Communications in Mathematical PhysicsOA
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
2
Article|55 citations·2008
On the fifth-order KdV equation: Local well-posedness and lack of uniform continuity of the solution map
Soonsik Kwon
SJR Q1Journal of Differential Equations
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
3
Article|34 citations·2018
Orbital stability of solitary waves for derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Soonsik Kwon, Yifei Wu
SJR Q1Journal d Analyse Mathématique
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
4
Article|33 citations·2013
Rough solutions of the fifth-order KdV equations
Zihua Guo, Chulkwang Kwak, Soonsik Kwon
SJR Q1Journal of Functional Analysis
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
5
Article|30 citations·2018
Soonsik Kwon, Tadahiro Oh, Haewon Yoon
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

In this paper, we revisit the infinite iteration scheme of normal form\nreductions, introduced by the first and second authors (with Z. Guo), in\nconstructing solutions to nonlinear dispersive PDEs. Our main goal is to\npresent a simplified approach to this method. More precisely, we study normal\nform reductions in an abstract form and reduce multilinear estimates of\narbitrarily high degrees to successive applications of basic trilinear\nestimates. As an application, we prove unconditional wel

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
6
Article|23 citations·2008
Well-posedness and ill-posedness of the fifth-order modified KdV equation
Soonsik Kwon
SJR Q2DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)OA

We consider the initial value problem of the fifth-order modified KdV equation on the Sobolev spaces. $$displaylines{ partial_t u - partial_x^5u + c_1partial_x^3(u^3) + c_2upartial_x upartial_x^2 u + c_3uupartial_x^3 u =0cr u(x,0)= u_0(x) }$$ where $u:mathbb{R}imesmathbb{R} o mathbb{R} $ and $c_j$'s are real. We show the local well-posedness in $H^s(mathbb{R})$ for $sgeq 3/4$ via the contraction principle on $X^{s,b}$ space. Also, we show that the solution map from data to the solutions fails to

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
7
Article|16 citations·2016
Modified scattering for the Vlasov–Poisson system
Sun-Ho Choi, Soonsik Kwon
SJR Q1Nonlinearity

We study the asymptotic behavior of dispersing solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson system. Due to long interaction range, we do not expect linear scattering (Choi S-H and Ha S-Y 2011 SIAM J. Math. Anal. 43 2050-77). Instead, we prove a modified scattering result (or long range scattering result) of small and dispersing solutions. We find a quasi-free forward trajectory so that along the trajectory, the solution has an asymptotic limit. We extract the logarithmic growth part of the Duhamel term, and

Applied MathematicsMathematics
8
Preprint|12 citations·2016
Orbital stability of solitary waves for derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Soonsik Kwon, Yifei Wu
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

In this paper, we show the orbital stability of solitons arising in the cubic derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equations. We consider the zero mass case that is not covered by earlier works [8, 3]. As this case enjoys L^2 scaling invariance, we expect the orbital stability in the sense up to scaling symmetry, in addition to spatial and phase translations. For the proof, we are based on the variational argument and extend a similar argument in [21]. Moreover, we also show a self-similar type blow

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
9
Preprint|8 citations·2020
Normal form approach to unconditional well-posedness of nonlinear dispersive PDEs on the real line
Soonsik Kwon, Tadahiro Oh, Haewon Yoon
Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse MathématiquesOA

In this paper, we revisit the infinite iteration scheme of normal form reductions, introduced by the first and second authors (with Z. Guo), in constructing solutions to nonlinear dispersive PDEs. Our main goal is to present a simplified approach to this method. More precisely, we study normal form reductions in an abstract form and reduce multilinear estimates of arbitrarily high degrees to successive applications of basic trilinear estimates. As an application, we prove unconditional well-pose

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
10
Article|7 citations·2023
On Pseudoconformal Blow-Up Solutions to the Self-Dual Chern-Simons-Schrödinger Equation: Existence, Uniqueness, and Instability
Kihyun Kim, Soonsik Kwon
SJR Q1Memoirs of the American Mathematical SocietyOA

We consider the self-dual Chern-Simons-Schrödinger equation (CSS), also known as a gauged nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS). CSS is <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper L squared"> <mml:semantics> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>L</mml:mi> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msup> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">L^{2}</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
11
Article|5 citations·2023
Construction of Blow-Up Manifolds to the Equivariant Self-dual Chern–Simons–Schrödinger Equation
Kihyun Kim, Soonsik Kwon
SJR Q1Annals of PDEOA
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
12
Preprint|4 citations·2007
On the fifth order KdV equation: local well-posedness and lack of uniform continuity of the solution map
Soonsik Kwon
ArXiv.orgOA

In this paper we prove that the fifth order equation arising from the KdV hierarchy $ \partial_tu + \partial_x^5u + c_1\partial_x u\partial_x^2u + c_2u\partial_x^3u = 0 $ is locally well-posed in $ H^s(\mathbb{R}) $ for $ s&gt; 5/2. Also, we prove the solution map of the equation is not uniformly continuous for $s&gt;0$.

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
13
Preprint|3 citations·2011
On Unconditional Well-Posedness of Modified KdV
Soonsik Kwon, Tadahiro Oh
SJR Q1International Mathematics Research NoticesOA

Bourgain [2] proved that the periodic modified Korteweg–de Vries (mKdV) equation is locally well-posed in ⁠, ⁠, by introducing new weighted Sobolev spaces Xs,b, where the uniqueness holds conditionally, namely in ⁠. In this paper, we establish unconditional well-posedness of mKdV in ⁠, ⁠, that is, in addition we establish unconditional uniqueness in C([0,T];Hs), ⁠, of solutions to mKdV. We prove this result via differentiation by parts. For the endpoint case ⁠, we perform careful quinti- and sep

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
14
Article|2 citations·2012
Bilinear local smoothing estimate for Airy equation
Soonsik Kwon, Tristan Roy
SJR Q1Differential and Integral EquationsOA

In this short note, we prove a refinement of bilinear local smoothing estimates of Airy solutions, when the frequency support of two wave are separated. As an application we prove a smoothing property of a bilinear form.

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
15
Preprint|2 citations·2007
Well-posedness and ill-posedness of the fifth order modifed KdV equation
Soonsik Kwon
ArXiv.orgOA

We consider the initial value problem of the fifth order modified KdV equation on the Sobolev spaces. \partial_t u - \partial_x^5u + c_1\partial_x^3(u^3) + c_2u\partial_x u\partial_x^2 u + c_3uu\partial_x^3 u =0, u(x,0)= u_0(x) where $ u:R\timesR \to R $ and $c_j$'s are real. We show the local well-posedness in H^s(R) for s \geq 3/4 via the contraction principle on $X^{s,b}$ space. Also, we show that the solution map from data to the solutions fails to be uniformly continuous below $H^{3/4}(R)$.

Mathematical PhysicsMathematics

Research Areas

Mathematical PhysicsStatistical and Nonlinear PhysicsApplied MathematicsPlant ScienceManagement Science and Operations ResearchAerospace Engineering

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