Decay of solitary waves of fractional Korteweg-de Vries type equations

Abstract

We study the solitary waves of fractional Korteweg-de Vries type equations, that are related to the $1$-dimensional semi-linear fractional equations: \begin{align*} \vert D \vert^\alpha u + u -f(u)=0, \end{align*} with $\alpha\in (0,2)$, a prescribed coefficient $p^*(\alpha)$, and a non-linearity $f(u)=\vert u \vert^{p-1}u$ for $p\in(1,p^*(\alpha))$, or $f(u)=u^p$ with an integer $p\in[2;p^*(\alpha))$. Asymptotic developments of order $1$ at infinity of solutions are given, as well as second order developments for positive solutions, in terms of the coefficient of dispersion $\alpha$ and of the non-linearity $p$. The main tools are the kernel formulation introduced by Bona and Li, and an accurate description of the kernel by complex analysis theory.