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Global existence for the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation in arbitrary dimensions. (English) Zbl 0591.35012
The Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation $u_ t-u_{xxt}+uu_ x=0,\quad x\in\mathbb R,\quad t\geq 0,$ models long waves in a nonlinear dispersive system. Global existence and uniqueness results for this equation were established by T. B. Benjamin, J. L. Bona and J. J. Mahony [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A 272, 47–78 (1972; Zbl 0229.35013)]. In higher dimensions, the generalized BBM equation is $u_ t-\Delta_ xu_ t+\mathop{div}(\phi u)=0,\quad x\in\mathbb R^ d,\quad t\geq 0.$ In two papers by B. Calvert [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 79, 545–561 (1976; Zbl 0319.47030) and B. J. Wichnoski and the second author [Nonlinear Anal., Theory Methods Appl. 4, 665–675 (1980; Zbl 0447.35068)], existence results were obtained in dimension $$d\leq 5$$ when $$\phi'$$ satisfies a polynomial-like growth bound. Here the results of Wichnoski and the second author are extended to all dimensions.
Reviewer: G. Gudmundsdottir

##### MSC:
 35G25 Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs 35Q53 KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) 35A05 General existence and uniqueness theorems (PDE) (MSC2000)
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