Well-posedness and analyticity of solutions for the sixth-order Boussinesq equation

Abstract

Studied in this paper is the sixth-order Boussinesq equation. We extend the local well-posedness theory for this equation with quadratic and cubic nonlinearities to the high dimensional case. In spite of having the ``bad'' fourth term $\Delta u$ in the equation, we derive some dispersive estimates leading to the existence of local solutions which also improves the previous results in the cubic case. In addition, we show persistence of spatial analyticity of solutions for the cubic nonlinearity.

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