# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2013, 12(3): 1321-1339. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.1321

## Global well-posedness for the Kawahara equation with low regularity

 1 Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

Received  March 2012 Revised  July 2012 Published  September 2012

We consider the global well-posedness for the Cauchy problem of the Kawahara equation which is one of fifth order KdV type equations. We first establish the local well-posedness in a more suitable function space for the global well-posedness by a variant of the Fourier restriction norm method introduced by Bourgain. Next, we extend this local solution globally in time by the I-method. In the present paper, we can apply the I-method to the modified Bourgain space in which the structure of the nonlinear term is reflected.
Citation: Takamori Kato. Global well-posedness for the Kawahara equation with low regularity. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2013, 12 (3) : 1321-1339. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.1321
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