The propagation of regularity and dispersive blow-up phenomenon to higher-order generalized KdV equations

Abstract: Some special properties of smoothness and singularity concerning to the initial value problem associated with higher-order generalized KdV equations are investigated. On one hand, we show the propagation of regularity phenomena. More precisely, the regularity of initial data on the right-hand side of the real line is propagated to the left-hand side with infinite speed under the higher-order KdV flow. On the other hand, we show that the dispersive blow-up phenomenon will occur by constructing a class of smoothing initial data such that global solutions with the given initial data keep smooth at positive generic irrational times, while global solutions display singularity at each time-space positive rational point. The blow-up phenomenon is exclusively caused by the linear part of solutions due to the focusing of short or long waves.