We prove that solitons (or solitary waves) of the Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) equation, a physically relevant high dimensional generalization of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation appearing in Plasma Physics, and having mixed KdV and nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) dynamics, are strongly asymptotically stable in the energy space in the physical region. We also prove that the sum of well-arranged solitons is stable in the same space. Orbital stability of ZK solitons is well-known since the work of de Bouard. Our proofs follow the ideas by Martel and Martel and Merle, applied for generalized KdV equations in one dimension. In particular, we extend to the high dimensional case several monotonicity properties for suitable half-portions of mass and energy; we also prove a new Liouville type property that characterizes ZK solitons, and a key Virial identity for the linear and nonlinear part of the ZK dynamics, obtained independently of the mixed KdV-NLS dynamics. This last Virial identity relies on a simple sign condition, which is numerically tested for the two and three dimensional cases, with no additional spectral assumptions required. Possible extensions to higher dimensions and different nonlinearities could be obtained after a suitable local well-posedness theory in the energy space, and the verification of a corresponding sign condition.
We introduce a long wave scaling for the Vlasov-Poisson equation and derive, in the cold ions limit, the Korteweg-De Vries equation (in 1D) and the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation (in higher dimensions, in the presence of an external magnetic field). The proofs are based on the relative entropy method.
We solve the group classification problem for the $2+1$ generalized quantum Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation. Particularly we consider the generalized equation $u_{t}+f\left( u\right) u_{z}+u_{zzz}+u_{xxz}=0$, and the time-dependent Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation $u_{t}+δ\left( t\right) uu_{z}+λ\left( t\right) u_{zzz}+\varepsilon \left( t\right) u_{xxz}=0$% . Function $f\left( u\right) $ and $δ\left( t\right) ,~λ\left( t\right) $,~$\varepsilon \left( t\right) $ are determine in order the equations to admit additional Lie symmetries.\ Finally, we apply the Lie invariants to find similarity solutions fo…
Initial-boundary value problem for the generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation posed on a bounded rectangle is considered. Critical and subcritical powers in nonlinearity are studied.
A family of dispersive equations is considered which links a higher dimensional Benjamin-Ono equation and the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation. For these fractional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equations new well-posedness results are proved using transversality and localization of time to small frequency dependent time intervals.
We consider the linear Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation on a rectangle with a left Dirich-let boundary control. Using the flatness approach, we prove the null controllability of this equation and provide a space of analytic reachable states.
An initial-boundary value problem in a strip with homogeneous Diriclet boundary conditions for two-dimensional generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation is considered. In particular, dissipative and absorbing degenerate terms can be supplemented to the original Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation. Results on global existence, uniqueness and long-time decay of weak silutions are established.
Initial-boundary value problems in a strip with different types of boundary conditions for two-dimensional generalized Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation are considered. Results on global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions in certain weighted spaces are established.
Initial-boundary value problems in a half-strip with different types of boundary conditions for two-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation are considered. Results on global existence, uniqueness and long-time decay of weak and regular solutions are establishrd.
An initial-boundary value problem for the 3D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation posed on bounded domains is considered. Existence and uniqueness of a global regular solution as well as exponential decay of the $H^2$-norm for small initial data are proven.
An initial-boundary value in a strip with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions for two-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov-Burgers equation is considered. Results on global well-posedness and long-time decay of solutions in Sobolev spaces are established.
An initial-boundary value problem for the critical generalized 2D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation posed on a half-strip is considered. Existence, uniqueness and the exponential decay rate of global regular solutions for small initial data are established.
An initial-boundary value problem for the 3D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation posed on an unbounded domain is considered. Existence and uniqueness of a global regular solution as well as exponential decay of the $H^2$-norm for small initial data are proven.
In this article we prove that sufficiently smooth solutions of the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation that have compact support for two different times are identically zero.
Initial-boundary value problem for the modified Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation posed on a bounded rectangle is considered. The main difficulty is the critical power in nonlinear term. The results on existence, uniqueness and asymptotic behavior of solutions are presented.
The initial value problem for two-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation on periodic boundary setting is shown to be locally well-posed in the cylinder for 9/10 < s < 1. We prove this theorem by using bilinear estimates thinking separetely the first variable and the second variable of space.
In this paper we study uniqueness properties of solutions to the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation of plasma physic. Given two sufficiently regular solutions $u_1, u_2,$ we prove that, if $u_1-u_2$ decays fast enough at two distinct times, then $u_1\equiv u_2.$
An initial-boundary value problem with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions for three-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation is considered. Results on global existence, uniqueness and large-time decay of weak solutions in certain weighted spaces are established.
The initial value problem for two-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation is shown to be globally well-posed in $H^s({\mathbb{R}^2})$ for all $\frac{5}{7}<s<1$ via using $I$-method in the context of atomic spaces. By means of the increment of modified energy, the exsitence of global attractor for weakly damped, forced Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation is also established in $H^s({\mathbb{R}^2})$ for $\frac{10}{11}<s<1$.
The Cauchy problem for the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation is shown to be locally well-posed in H^s(R^2) for all s>1/2 by using the Fourier restriction norm method and bilinear refinements of Strichartz type inequalities.
We show the global well-posedness for the two-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in $H^{s}({\mathbb{R}^2})$ when $\frac{11}{13}<s<1$ via the I-method. Additionally, local well-posedness for the symmetrized ZK equation in $ B^\frac{1}{2}_{2,1}(\mathbb{R}^2)$ is established by using atomic spaces.
The Cauchy Problem for the modified Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in three space dimensions is shown to be locally well-posed in $H^s(\R^3)$ for $s > \frac12$. Combined with the conservation of mass and energy this result implies global well-posedness for small data in $H^1(\R^3)$.
Initial-boundary value problems for the 2D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation posed on bounded rectangles and on a strip are considered. Spectral properties of a linearized operator and critical sizes of domains are studied. Exponential decay of regular solutions for the original nonlinear problems is proved.
We prove the local well-posedness of the three-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation $\partial_tu+Δ\partial_xu+ u\partial_xu=0$ in the Sobolev spaces $H^s(\R^3)$, $s>1$, as well as in the Besov space $B^{1,1}_2(\R^3)$. The proof is based on a sharp maximal function estimate in time-weighted spaces.
The main purpose here is the study of dispersive blow-up for solutions of the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation. Dispersive blow-up refers to point singularities due to the focusing of short or long waves. We will construct initial data such that solutions of the linear problem present this kind of singularities. Then we show that the corresponding solutions of the nonlinear problem present dispersive blow-up inherited from the linear component part of the equation. Similar results are obtained for the generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation.
Initial-boundary value problems in a bounded rectangle with different types of boundary conditions for two-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation are considered. Results on global well-posedness in the classes of weak and regular solution are established. As applications of the developed technique results on boundary controllability and long-time decay of weak solutions are also obtained.
An initial-boundary value problem for the n-dimensional ($n$ is a natural number from the interval [2,7]) Kuramoto-Sivashinsky-Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation posed on smooth bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ was considered. The existence and uniqueness of global regular solutions as well as their exponential decay have been established. A connection between an order of the stationary part of the equation and admissible dimensions of a domain has been revealed. Keywords: Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation, Global solutions
In this paper, we explain in more details the modern treatment of the problem of group classification of (systems of) partial differential equations (PDEs) from the algorithmic point of view. More precisely, we revise the classical Lie--Ovsiannikov algorithm of construction of symmetries of differential equations, describe the group classification algorithm and discuss the process of reduction of (systems of) PDEs to (systems of) equations with smaller number of independent variables in order to construct invariant solutions. The group classification algorithm and reduction process are illustr…
Initial-boundary value problems for the linear Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation posed on bounded rectangles are considered. Spectral properties of a stationary operator are studied in order to show that the evolution problem posed on a bounded rectangle has no critical restrictions on its size. Exponential decay of regular solutions is established.
An initial-boundary value problem for the 2D Zakharov-Kuznetsov-Burgers equation posed on a channel-type strip was considered. The existence and uniqueness results for regular and weak solutions in weighted spaces as well as exponential decay of small solutions without restrictions on the width of a strip were proven both for regular solutions in an elevated norm and for weak solutions in the $L^2$-norm.
In this paper we study the initial-value problem associated with the Benjamin-Ono-Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation. Such equation appears as a two-dimensional generalization of the Benjamin-Ono equation when transverse effects are included via weak dispersion of Zakharov-Kuznetsov type. We prove that the initial-value problem is locally well-posed in the usual $L^2(\R^2)$-based Sobolev spaces $H^{s}(\R^2)$, $s>11/8$, and in some weighted Sobolev spaces. To obtain our results, most of the arguments are accomplished taking into account the ones for the Benjamin-Ono equation.
We prove a high-dimensional version of the Strichartz estimates for the unitary group associated to the free Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation. As a by--product, we deduce maximal estimates which allow us to prove local well-posedness for the generalized Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation in the whole subcritical case whenever $d \ge 4, k \ge 4,$ complementing the recent results of Kinoshita and Herr--Kinoshita. Finally, we use some of those maximal estimates in order to prove pointwise convergence results for the flow of the generalized Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation in any dimension, in the same spirit o…
In this note we study the generalized 2D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equations $\partial_tu+Δ\partial_xu+u^k\partial_xu=0$ for $k\ge 2$. By an iterative method we prove the local well-posedness of these equations in the Sobolev spaces $H^s(\mathbb{R}^2)$ for $s>1/4$ if $k=2$, $s>5/12$ if $k=3$ and $s>1-2/k$ if $k\ge 4$.
We consider in this paper the rigorous justification of the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation from the Euler-Poisson system for uniformly magnetized plasmas. We first provide a proof of the local well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the aforementioned system in dimensions two and three. Then we prove that the long-wave small-amplitude limit is described by the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation. This is done first in the case of cold plasma; we then show how to extend this result in presence of the isothermal pressure term with uniform estimates when this latter goes to zero.
In this paper, we consider the stability for line solitary waves of the two dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation on $\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{T}_L$ which is one of a high dimensional generalization of Korteweg-de Vries equation , where $\mathbb{T}_L$ is the torus with the period $2πL$. The orbital and asymptotic stability of the one soliton of Korteweg-de Vries equation on the energy space has been proved by Benjamin, Pego and Weinstein and Martel and Merle. We regard the one soliton of Korteweg-de Vries equation as a line solitary wave of Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation on $\mathbb{R}\times\mat…
We prove that if the difference of two sufficiently smooth solutions of the three-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation $$\partial_{t}u+\partial_{x}\triangle u+u\partial_{x}u=0 \text{,}\quad (x,y,z)\in\mathbb R^3, \;t\in[0,1],$$ decays as $e^{-a(x^2+y^2+z^2)^{3/4}}$ at two different times, for some $a>0$ large enough, then both solutions coincide.
We consider the Cauchy problem associated with the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation, posed on $\mathbb{T}^2$. We prove the local well-posedness for given data in $H^s(\mathbb{T}^2)$ whenever $s>5/3$. More importantly, we prove that this equation is of quasi-linear type for initial data in any Sobolev space on the torus, in sharp contrast with its semi-linear character in the $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{T}$ settings.
In this paper, we present analytic-approximate solution of a fractional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation by means of perturbation-iteration algorithm (PIA) and residual power series method (RSPM). Basic definitions of fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. Several examples are given and the results are compared to exact solutions. The results show that both methods are competitive, effective, convenient and simple to use.
Local well-posedness for the two-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in the fully periodic case with initial data in Sobolev spaces $H^s$, $s>1$, is proved. Frequency dependent time localization is utilized to control the derivative nonlinearity. The new ingredient to improve on previous results is a nonlinear Loomis-Whitney-type inequality.
This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of the modified Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation on $\mathbb{R}^d$. If $d=2$, we prove the sharp estimate which implies local in time well-posedness in the Sobolev space $H^s(\mathbb{R}^2)$ for $s \geq 1/4$. If $d \geq 3$, by employing $U^p$ and $V^p$ spaces, we establish the small data global well-posedness in the scaling critical Sobolev space $H^{s_c}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ where $s_c = d/2-1$.
In this paper, we investigate the instability of one-dimensionally stable periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long wavelength transverse perturbations in the generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in two space dimensions. By deriving appropriate asymptotic expansions of the periodic Evans function, we derive an index which yields sufficient conditions for transverse instabilities to occur. This index is geometric in nature, and applies to any periodic traveling wave profile under some minor smoothness assumptions on the nonlinearity. We also desc…
We consider the well-posedness of the initial value problem associated to the k-generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in fractional weighted Sobolev spaces. Our method of proof is based on the contraction mapping principle and it mainly relies on the well-posedness results recently obtained for this equation in the Sobolev spaces H^s(\R^2) and a new pointwise commutator type formula involving the group induced by the linear part of the equation and the fractional anisotropic weights to be considered
Initial-boundary value problems in a half-strip with different types of boundary conditions for two-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation are considered. Results on global well-posedness in classes of regular solutions in the cases of periodic and Neumann boundary conditions, as well as on internal regularity of solutions for all types of boundary conditions are established. Also in the case of Dirichlet boundary conditions one result on long-time decay of regular solutions is obtained.
We study in this article the stochastic Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation driven by a multiplicative noise. We establish, in space dimensions two and three the global existence of martingale solutions, and in space dimension two the global pathwise uniqueness and the existence of pathwise solutions. New methods are employed in the passage to the limit on a special type of boundary conditions and in the verification of the pathwise uniqueness of martingale solutions with a lack of regularity, where both difficulties arise due to the partly hyperbolic feature of the model.
This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of the $2$D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation. We prove bilinear estimates which imply local in time well-posedness in the Sobolev space $H^s({\mathbb{R}}^2)$ for $s > -1/4$, and these are optimal up to the endpoint. We utilize the nonlinear version of the classical Loomis-Whitney inequality and develop an almost orthogonal decomposition of the set of resonant frequencies. As a corollary, we obtain global well-posedness in $L^2({\mathbb{R}}^2)$.
The Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in spatial dimension $d\geq 5$ is considered. The Cauchy problem is shown to be globally well-posed for small initial data in critical spaces and it is proved that solutions scatter to free solutions as $t \to \pm \infty$. The proof is based on i) novel endpoint non-isotropic Strichartz estimates which are derived from the $(d-1)$-dimensional Schrödinger equation, ii) transversal bilinear restriction estimates, and iii) an interpolation argument in critical function spaces. Under an additional radiality assumption, a similar result is obtained in dimension $d=4$…
In this work we consider the initial value problem (IVP) associated to the two dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation $$\left. \begin{array}{rl} u_t+\partial_x^3 u+\partial_x \partial_y^2 u +u \partial_x u &\hspace{-2mm}=0,\qquad\qquad (x,y)\in\mathbb R^2,\; t\in\mathbb R,\\ u(x,y,0)&\hspace{-2mm}=u_0(x,y). \end{array} \right\}$$ We study the well-posedness of the IVP in the weighted Sobolev spaces $$H^s(\mathbb R^2) \cap L^2((1+x^2+y^2)^{r} dx dy),$$ with $s,r\in\mathbb R$.
We study here the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in dimension $2$ and $3$ and the modified Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in dimension $2$. Those equations admit solitons, characterized by their velocity and their shift. Given the parameters of $K$ solitons $R^k$ (with distinct velocities), we prove the existence and uniqueness of a multi-soliton $u$ such that $\left\| u- \sum_{k=1}^K R^k \right\|_{H^1}\rightarrow 0 $ as $t \rightarrow +\infty$. The convergence takes place in $H^s$ with an exponential rate for all $s\geq 0$. The construction is made by successive approximations of the multi-soliton.…
We prove the local well-posedness for the two-dimensional Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in $H^s(\mathbb{R}^2)$, for $s\in [1,2]$, on the background of an $L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^3)$-function $Ψ(t,x,y)$, with $Ψ(t,x,y)$ satisfying some natural extra conditions. This result not only gives us a framework to solve the ZK equation around a Kink, for example, but also around a periodic solution, that is, to consider localized non-periodic perturbations of periodic solutions. Additionally, we show the global well-posedness in the energy space $H^1(\mathbb{R}^2)$.
In this paper, we construct center stable manifolds of unstable line solitary waves for the Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation on $\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{T}_L$ and show the orbital stability of the unstable line solitary waves on the center stable manifolds, which yields the asymptotic stability of unstable solitary waves on the center stable manifolds near by stable line solitary waves. The construction is based on the graph transform approach by Nakanishi and Schlag. Applying the bilinear estimate on Fourier restriction spaces by Molinet and Pilod and modifying the mobile distance by Nakanishi a…
In this paper, we construct center stable manifolds around unstable line solitary waves of the Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation on two dimensional cylindrical spaces with $2πL$ period. In the previous paper, center stable manifolds around unstable line solitary waves have been constructed without critical speed $c =4n^2/5L^2$ for positive integer $n>1$. Since the linearized operator around line solitary waves with critical speed is degenerate, we prove the stability condition of the center stable manifold for critical speed by applying to the estimate of 4th order term of a Lyapunov function.
