Abstract :
We study a one-dimensional transport equation with nonlocal velocity which was recently considered
in the work of Córdoba, Córdoba and Fontelos [A. Córdoba, D. Córdoba, M.A. Fontelos, Formation of
singularities for a transport equation with nonlocal velocity, Ann. of Math. (2) 162 (3) (2005) 1377–1389].
We show that in the subcritical and critical cases the problem is globally well-posed with arbitrary initial
data in Hmax{3/2−γ,0}. While in the supercritical case, the problem is locally well-posed with initial data
in H3/2−γ , and is globally well-posed under a smallness assumption. Some polynomial-in-time decay
estimates are also discussed. These results improve some previous results in [A. Córdoba, D. Córdoba,
M.A. Fontelos, Formation of singularities for a transport equation with nonlocal velocity, Ann. of Math. (2)
162 (3) (2005) 1377–1389].
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