Physical Space Proof of Bilinear Estimates and Applications to Nonlinear Dispersive Equations

Abstract

We give a simpler proof for the local well-posedness of the modified Korteweg-de Vries equations and modified Benjamin-Ono equation in $H^{\frac{1}{4}}(\mathbb{R})$ and $H^{\frac{1}{2}}(\mathbb{R})$, respectively. The proof is based on the Strichartz estimate, dyadic decomposition and a bilinear estimate given by a new type of div-curl lemma.