The well-posedness of Cauchy problem for dissipative modified Korteweg de Vries equations

Abstract

In this paper we consider some dissipative versions of the modified Korteweg de Vries equation $u_t+u_{xxx}+|D_x|^{\alpha}u+u^2u_x=0$ with $0<\alpha\leq 3$. We prove some well-posedness results on the associated Cauchy problem in the Sobolev spaces $H^s({\Bbb R})$ for $s>1/4-\alpha/4$ on the basis of the $[k; Z]-$multiplier norm estimate obtained by Tao in \cite{Tao} for KdV equation.