Ill-posedness of nonlocal Burgers equations.pdf

Advances in Mathematics 227 (2011) 2220–2240 /locate/aim Ill-posedness of nonlocal Burgers equations Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage a, Jean-Fran?ois Coulombel b, Nikolay Tzvetkov c,? a Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, INSA de Lyon, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, CNRS, UMR5208, Institut Camille Jordan, 43 blvd du 11 novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne-Cedex, France b CNRS, Université Lille 1, Laboratoire Paul Painlevé (UMR CNRS 8524) and EPI SIMPAF of INRIA Lille Nord Europe, Cité scientifique, Batiment M2, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France c Département de Mathématiques (UMR CNRS 8088), Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 2 avenue Adolphe Chauvin, 95302 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France Received 13 July 2010; accepted 19 April 2011 Available online 18 May 2011 Communicated by Carlos E. Kenig Abstract Nonlocal generalizations of Burgers equation were derived in earlier work by Hunter [J.K. Hunter, Nonlinear surface waves, in: Current Progress in Hyberbolic Systems: Riemann Problems and Compu- tations, Brunswick, ME, 1988, in: Contemp. Math., vol. 100, Amer. Math. Soc., 1989, pp. 185–202], and more recently by Benzoni-Gavage and Rosini [S. Benzoni-Gavage, M. Rosini, Weakly nonlinear surface waves and subsonic phase boundaries, Comput. Math. Appl. 57 (3–4) (2009) 1463–1484], as weakly nonlinear amplitude equations for hyperbolic boundary value problems admitting linear surface waves. The local-in-time well-posedness of such equations in Sobolev spaces was proved by Benzoni-Gavage [S. Benzoni-Gavage, Local well-posedness of nonlocal Burgers equations, Differential Integral Equations 22 (3–4) (2009) 303–320] under an appropriate stability condition originally pointed out by Hunter. In this article, it is shown that the latter condition is not only sufficient for well-posedness in Sobolev spaces but also necessary. The main point of the analysis is to show that when the stability condition is violated, nonlo- cal Burgers equations reduce to second order elliptic PDEs. The resulting ill-po