Unconditional local well-posedness threshold for the periodic generalized KdV equation

Let k3k\geq 3 and consider the kk-generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation on the periodic domain, with initial data in the Sobolev space Hs(T)H^s(\mathbb T). Unconditional well-posedness conjecture. The equation is unconditionally locally well-posed in Hs(T)H^s(\mathbb T) for every

s121k.s\geq \frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{k}.

The proposed threshold is motivated by the failure of the convex integration scheme below the regime where the nonlinearity uku^k belongs to Ct0Lx1C_t^0L_x^1, and by the known sharp threshold for the KdV equation. The corresponding unconditional nonuniqueness-versus-uniqueness transition remains conjectural for k3k\geq 3.

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Nicholas Gismondi, Kunyi, Ma, Mandon Pathak and Alexandru F. Radu, “Non-unique solutions to the periodic gKdV equation”, arXiv:2606.06916 (2026).

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