Below-ground-state scattering conjecture for the focusing mass-critical generalized KdV equation

Let uu solve the focusing, mass-critical generalized KdV equation (1.1)(1.1) with initial data u(0,x)=u0L2(R)u(0,x)=u_0\in L^2(\mathbb{R}), and let

Q(x)=31/4cosh1/2(2x)>0Q(x)=\frac{3^{1/4}}{\cosh^{1/2}(2x)}>0

be the ground state, which satisfies Qxx+Q5=QQ_{xx}+Q^5=Q. Below-ground-state scattering conjecture. If

u0L2<QL2,\|u_0\|_{L^2}<\|Q\|_{L^2},

then the solution to (1.1)(1.1) is globally well-posed and scattering. This is the generalized KdV analogue of the corresponding result known for the focusing, mass-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation; the conjecture remains open.

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Benjamin Dodson and Cristian Gavrus, “Instability of the soliton for the focusing, mass-critical generalized KdV equation”, arXiv:2012.00929 (2020).

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