[Submitted on 19 Jun 2026]

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Abstract:We study the Cauchy problem associated with the higher-order Benjamin-Ono-Schrödinger system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_{t}r-a\partial_{x}^{3}r-b\mathcal{H}\partial_{x}^{2}r =cr\partial_{x}r -d\partial_{x}(r\mathcal{H}\partial_{x}r+\mathcal{H}(r\partial_{x}r)) +\beta \partial_{x}(|q|^{2}), \quad x,t\in \mathbb{R},\\ i\partial_{t}q-\alpha \partial_{x}^{2}q=-\beta qr , \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $b,c,d,\alpha,\beta$ are positive constants and $a\neq 0$ is a real constant. This system was introduced by Kairzhan, Kennedy, and Sulem in \cite{Higher-order-Benjamin-Ono-NLS-System-Sulem}. We prove that this system is locally well-posed in the energy space $H^{1}(\mathbb{R})\times H^{1}(\mathbb{R})$. Furthermore, in the case $a<0$, this result extends globally for initial data $(r_{0},q_0)$ with sufficiently small $H^{1}\times H^1$-norm. The proof combines compactness arguments with energy methods. To provide smooth solutions, we have to deal with the lost of the derivatives phenomenon introduced by higher-order derivatives and the Hilbert transform in the nonlinear terms when performing energy estimates. This is overcome by introducing a modified energy functional that cancels the problematic terms arising in the standard energy estimates. Once this is done, we extend the method put forward by Molinet and Pilod in \cite{HOBOinH1-Didier-Molinet} to study a single higher-order Benjamin-Ono equation. Their procedure includes the use of a gauge transformation of Tao's type \cite{GWP-BO-Tao}, and delicate bilinear estimates in Bourgain type spaces.

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From: Fáuster Santana [view email]
[v1] Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:29:07 UTC (52 KB)

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