On the integrability of Degasperis–Procesi equation: Control of the Sobolev norms and Birkhoff resonances

Abstract

We consider the dispersive Degasperis–Procesi equation ut−uxxt−cuxxx+4cux−uuxxx−3uxuxx+4uux=0 with c∈R∖{0}. In [15] the authors proved that this equation possesses infinitely many conserved quantities. We prove that there are infinitely many of such constants of motion which control the Sobolev norms and which are analytic in a neighborhood of the origin of the Sobolev space Hs with s≥2, both on R and T. By the analysis of these conserved quantities we deduce a result of global well-posedness for solutions with small initial data and we show that, on the circle, the formal Birkhoff normal form of the Degasperis–Procesi at any order is action-preserving.