# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2014, 34(11): 4897-4910. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.4897

## The existence of strong solutions to the $3D$ Zakharov-Kuznestov equation in a bounded domain

 1 Department of Mathematics and The Institute, for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-5701, United States

Received  October 2013 Revised  February 2014 Published  May 2014

We consider the Zakharov-Kuznestov (ZK) equation posed in a limited domain $\mathcal{M}=(0,1)_{x}\times(-\pi /2, \pi /2)^d,$ $d=1,2$ supplemented with suitable boundary conditions. We prove that there exists a solution $u \in \mathcal C ([0, T]; H^1(\mathcal{M}))$ to the initial and boundary value problem for the ZK equation in both dimensions $2$ and $3$ for every $T>0$. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first result of the global existence of strong solutions for the ZK equation in $3D$.
More importantly, the idea behind the application of anisotropic estimation to cancel the nonlinear term, we believe, is not only suited for this model but can also be applied to other nonlinear equations with similar structures.
At the same time, the uniqueness of solutions is still open in $2D$ and $3D$ due to the partially hyperbolic feature of the model.
Citation: Chuntian Wang. The existence of strong solutions to the $3D$ Zakharov-Kuznestov equation in a bounded domain. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2014, 34 (11) : 4897-4910. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.4897
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##### References:
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