Abstract: | The Cauchy problem for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation is considered and the local existence and uniqueness of solutions in L^q(0, T;L^p) ∩ L^∞(0, T; dot{H}^{-s})(0 ≤ s < 1) are obtained for initial data in dot{H}^{-s}. Moreover, the local solutions are global if the initial data are sufficiently small in critical case. Particularly, for s = 0, the generalized Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation satisfies the energy equality, so the initial data can be arbitrarily large to obtain the global solution. |