Lower bounds on the radius of spatial analyticity for the Kawahara equation

Abstract

In this paper we obtain lower bounds on the radius of spatial analyticity of solutions to the Kawahara equation $u_t + uu_x + \alpha u_{xxx} + \beta u_{xxxxx} = 0$, $\beta\neq0$, given initial data which is analytic with a fixed radius. It is shown that the uniform radius of spatial analyticity of solutions at later time $t$ can decay no faster than $1/|t|$ as $|t|\rightarrow\infty$.