GLOBAL WELL-POSEDNESS FOR THE GENERALISED FOURTH-ORDER SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION

Abstract

AbstractWe study the Cauchy problem for the generalised fourth-order Schrödinger equation for data u0 in critical Sobolev spaces $\dot {H}^{1/2-3/2k}$. With small initial data we obtain global well-posedness results. Our proof relies heavily on the method developed by Kenig et al. [‘Well-posedness and scattering results for the generalised Korteweg–de Vries equation via the contraction principle’, Commun. Pure Appl. Math.46 (1993), 527–620].