Smoothing and global attractors for the Hirota-Satsuma system on the torus

Abstract

We consider the Hirota-Satsuma system, a coupled KdV-type system, with periodic boundary conditions. The first part of the paper concerns with the smoothing estimates for the system. More precisely, it is shown that, for initial data in a Sobolev space, the difference of the nonlinear and linear evolutions lies in a smoother space. The smoothing gain we obtain depends very much on the arithmetic nature of the coupling parameter a which determines the structure of the resonant sets in the estimates. In the second part, we address the forced and damped Hirota-Satsuma system and obtain counterpart smoothing estimates. As a consequence of these estimates, we prove the existence and smoothness of a global attractor in the energy space.