On well-posedness for the Benjamin-Ono equation

Abstract

We prove existence of solutions for the Benjamin-Ono equation with data in $H^s(\R)$, $s>0$. Thanks to conservation laws, this yields global solutions for $H^\frac 1 2(\R)$ data, which is the natural ``finite energy'' class. Moreover, inconditional uniqueness is obtained in $L^\infty_t(H^\frac 1 2(\R))$, which includes weak solutions, while for $s>\frac 3 {20}$, uniqueness holds in a natural space which includes the obtained solutions.