We prove the discontinuity for the weak L(T)-topology of the flowmap associated with the periodic Benjamin-Ono equation. This ensures that this equation is ill-posed in Hs(T) as soon as s < 0 and thus completes exactly the well-posedness result obtained in [12]. AMS Subject Classification : 35B20, 35Q53.

In this paper, we prove the asymptotic stability of the family of solitons of the Benjamin-Ono equation in the energy space. The proof is based on a Liouville property for solutions close to the solitons for this equation, in the spirit of [16], [18]. As a corollary of the proofs, we obtain the asymptotic stability of exact multi-solitons.

The Whitham modulation equations for the parameters of a periodic solution are derived using the generalized Lagrangian approach for the case of the damped Benjamin-Ono equation. The structure of the dispersive shock is considered in this method.

This note proves the orbital stability in the energy space H of the sum of widelyspaced 1-solitons for the Benjamin-Ono equation, with speeds arranged so as to avoid collisions.

In this paper we study local well-posedness in the energy space for a family of dispersive equations that can be seen as dispersive " interpolations " between the KdV and the Benjamin-Ono equation.

Computation of solitons of the cubically-nonlinear Benjamin–Ono equation is challenging. First, the equation contains the Hilbert transform, a nonlocal integral operator. Second, its solitary waves decay only as O(1/jxj). To solve the integro-differential equation for waves traveling at a phase speed c, we introduced the artificial homotopy H(uXX) c u + (1 d)u + du = 0, d 2 [0,1] and solved it ...

We study the Cauchy initial-value problem for the Benjamin-Ono equation in the zero-dispersion limit, and we establish the existence of this limit in a certain weak sense by developing an appropriate analogue of the method invented by Lax and Levermore to analyze the corresponding limit for the Korteweg–de Vries equation. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.