Almost optimal local well-posedness for improved modified Boussinesq equations

Abstract

In this article, we investigate a class of improved modified Boussinesq equations, for which we provide first an alternate proof of local well-posedness in the space $(H^s\cap L^{\infty })\times (H^s\cap L^{\infty })(\mathbb{R})$ ($s\ge 0$) to the one obtained by Constantin and Molinet. Secondly, we show that the associated flow map is not smooth when considered from $H^s\times H^s(\mathbb{R})$ into $H^s(\mathbb{R})$ for $s<0$, thus providing a threshold for the regularity needed to perform a Picard iteration for these equations.

10 pages