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Publications and source records attributed to C. E. Kenig.
We study uniqueness properties of solutions of Schrödinger equations. The aim is to obtain sufficient conditions on the decay behavior of the difference of two solution $u_1-u_2$ of the equation at two different times $t_0=0$ and $t_1=1$ which guarantee the uniqueness of the solution, i.e. that $u_1\equiv u_2$.
In this paper we study the local solvability of nonlinear Schrödinger equations of the form $$\p_t u = i {\cal L}(x) u + \vec b_1(x)\cdot \nabla_x u + \vec b_2(x)\cdot \nabla_x \bar u + c_1(x)u+c_2(x)\bar u +P(u,\bar u,\nabla_x u, \nabla_x\bar u), where $x\in\mathbb R^n$, $t>0$, $\displaystyle{\cal L}(x) = -\sum_{j,k=1}^n\p_{x_j}(a_{jk}(x)\p_{x_k})$, $A(x)=(a_{jk}(x))_{j,k=1,..,n}$ is a real, symmetric and nondegenerate variable coefficient matrix, and $P$ is a polynomial with no linear or constant terms. Equations of the form described in with $A(x)$ merely invertible as opposed to positive definite arise in connection with water wave problems, and in higher dimensions as completely integrable models. Under appropriate assumptions on the coefficients we shall show that the associated initial value problem is local well posed.
In this work we establish a local existence theory for the initial value problem associated to the general quasi-linear ultrahyperbolic Schrödinger equation.
The initial-boundary value problem for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation on a half-line is studied by adapting the initial value techniques developed by Kenig, Ponce and Vega and Bourgain to the initial-boundary setting. The approach consists of replacing the initial-boundary problem by a forced initial value problem. The forcing is selected to satisfy the boundary condition by inverting a Riemann-Liouville fractional integral.