Local well posedness for KdV with data in a subspace of $H^{-1}$ and applications to illposedness theory for KdV and mKdV

Luc Molinet, Baoxiang Wang

Published 2009-12-13, updated 2010-04-20Version 4

We prove the local well posedness for the KdV equation in the modulation space $M^{-1}_{2,1}(\mathbb{R})$. Our method is to substitute the dyadic decomposition by the uniform decomposition in the discrete Bourgain space. This wellposedness result enables us to show that the solution map is discontinuous at the origin with respect to the $H^{s} $-topology as soon as $s<-1$. Making use of the Miura transform we also deduce a discontinuity result for the $ H^s(\Real) $-topology, $s<0 $, for the solution map associated with the focussing and defocussing mKdV equations.