On dispersive decay for the generalized Korteweg--de Vries equation

Abstract

We prove pointwise-in-time dispersive estimates for solutions to the generalized Korteweg--de Vries (gKdV) equation. In particular, for solutions to the mass-critical model, we assume only that initial data lie in $\dot{H}^{\frac{1}{4}} \cap \dot{H}^{-\frac{1}{12}}$ and show that solutions decay in $L^\infty$ like $|t|^{-\frac{1}{3}}$. To accomplish this, we develop a persistence of negative regularity for solutions to gKdV and extend Lorentz--Strichartz estimates to the mixed norm case.