Global well-posedness for higher-order even nonlinearities

Establish a low-regularity global well-posedness theory for the generalised fractional BBM equation with higher-order even polynomial nonlinearities.

Background

The paper develops low-regularity global well-posedness results primarily for odd nonlinearities, using conservation of the Hamiltonian to control the L{k+1} norm. For even k, the Hamiltonian does not provide the same control because the associated power term is not sign-definite. The author explicitly identifies the global theory for higher-order even powers as unresolved.

References

As far as the author is aware, the higher order even powers remain an open problem.

— Well-posedness for the generalised fractional BBM equation  (2610.03288 - Barratt, 2 Oct 2026) in Section 1, subsection “Global theory,” discussion of Regime 1