Sharp local well-posedness for the "good" Boussinesq equation

In the present article, we prove the sharp local well-posedness and ill-posedness results for the "good" Boussinesq equation on $\mathbb{T}$; the initial value problem is locally well-posed in $H^{-1/2}(\mathbb{T})$ and ill-posed in $H^s(\mathbb{T})$ for $s<-1/2$. Well-posedness result is obtained from reduction of the problem into a quadratic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and the contraction argument in suitably modified $X^{s,b}$ spaces. The proof of the crucial bilinear estimates in these spaces, especially in the lowest regularity, rely on some bilinear estimates for one dimensional periodic functions in $X^{s,b}$ spaces, which are generalization of the bilinear refinement of the $L^4$ Strichartz estimate on $\mathbb{R}$. Our result improves the known local well-posedness in $H^s(\mathbb{T})$ with $s>-3/8$ given by Oh and Stefanov (2012) to the regularity threshold $H^{-1/2}(\mathbb{T})$. Similar ideas also establish the sharp local well-posedness in $H^{-1/2}(\mathbb{R})$ and ill-posedness below $H^{-1/2}$ for the nonperiodic case, which improves the result of Tsugawa and the author (2010) in $H^s(\mathbb{R})$ with $s>-1/2$ to the limiting regularity.Comment: 40 page

Some Properties of String Field Algebra

We examine string field algebra which is generated by star product in Witten's string field theory including ghost part. We perform calculations using oscillator representation consistently. We construct wedge like states in ghost part and investigate algebras among them. As a by-product we have obtained some solutions of vacuum string field theory. We also discuss some problems about identity state. We hope these calculations will be useful for further investigation of Witten type string field theory.Comment: 26 pages, typos corrected, v3:Eq.(92) corrected, v4:to be published in JHE

Local well-posedness for the Zakharov system on multidimensional torus

The initial value problem of the Zakharov system on two dimensional torus with general period is shown to be locally well-posed in the Sobolev spaces of optimal regularity, including the energy space. Proof relies on a standard iteration argument using the Bourgain norms. The same strategy is also applicable to three and higher dimensional cases.Comment: 35 pages, 3 figure

UHF flows and the flip automorphism

A UHF flow is an infinite tensor product type action of the reals on a UHF algebra $A$ and the flip automorphism is an automorphism of $A\otimes A$ sending $x\otimes y$ into $y\otimes x$. If $\alpha$ is an inner perturbation of a UHF flow on $A$, there is a sequence $(u_n)$ of unitaries in $A\otimes A$ such that $\alpha_t\otimes \alpha_t(u_n)-u_n$ converges to zero and the flip is the limit of \Ad u_n. We consider here whether the converse holds or not and solve it with an additional assumption: If $A\otimes A\cong A$ and $\alpha$ absorbs any UHF flow $\beta$ (i.e., $\alpha\otimes\beta$ is cocycle conjugate to $\alpha$), then the converse holds; in this case $\alpha$ is what we call a universal UHF flow.Comment: 18 page

Resonant decomposition and the II-method for the two-dimensional Zakharov system

The initial value problem of the Zakharov system on two-dimensional torus with general period is considered in this paper. We apply the $I$-method with some 'resonant decomposition' to show global well-posedness results for small-in-$L^2$ initial data belonging to some spaces weaker than the energy class. We also consider an application of our ideas to the initial value problem on $\mathbb{R}^2$ and give an improvement of the best known result by Pecher (2012).Comment: 29 page