Initial and initial-boundary value problems for a cubic sixth-order Boussinesq equation

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the sixth-order Boussinesq equation with a cubic nonlinearity, \[ u_{tt}-u_{xx}+k u_{xxxx}-u_{xxxxxx}+\left( u^3 \right) _{xx}=0, \ \ \mbox{with }k=\pm 1,\] posed on both ${\mathbb{R}}^{+}$ and $\mathbb{R}$. The local wellposedness are improved in related Bourgain-type spaces, $X^{s,b}$, for $s>-\frac{1}{2}$ with $b=\frac{1}{2}$ and $b>\frac{1}{2}$ accordingly (See. \cite{esfahani2025well,zhong2024local}). The key ingredient is to refine the trilinear estimate on Burgain type space by adapting ideas from Tao's multiplier method, interpolation theory and our early work on IBVPs of dispersive equations \cite{li2020low,tao2001multilinear}.