New lower bounds on the radius of spatial analyticity for the KdV equation

Abstract

The radius of spatial analyticity for solutions of the KdV equation is studied. It is shown that the analyticity radius does not decay faster than $t^{-1/4}$ as time $t$ goes to infinity. This improves the works [Selberg, da Silva, Lower bounds on the radius of spatial analyticity for the KdV equation, Annales Henri Poincar\'{e}, 2017, 18(3): 1009-1023] and [Tesfahun, Asymptotic lower bound for the radius of spatial analtyicity to solutions of KdV equation, arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07810, 2017]. Our strategy mainly relies on a higher order almost conservation law in Gevrey spaces, which is inspired by the $I-$method.