The Properties of Solutions for a Generalized b-Family Equation with Peakons

This paper deals with the Cauchy problem for a shallow water equation with high-order nonlinearities, y _t +u ^m+1 y _x +bu ^m u _x y=0, where b is a constant, $m\in \mathbb{N}$ , and we have the notation $y:= (1-\partial_{x}^{2}) u$ , which includes the famous Camassa–Holm equation, the Degasperis–Procesi equation, and the Novikov equation as special cases. The local well-posedness of strong solutions for the equation in each of the Sobolev spaces $H^{s}(\mathbb{R})$ with $s>\frac{3}{2}$ is obtained, and persistence properties of the strong solutions are studied. Furthermore, although the $H^{1}(\mathbb{R})$ -norm of the solution to the nonlinear model does not remain constant, the existence of its weak solutions in each of the low order Sobolev spaces $H^{s}(\mathbb{R})$ with $1<s<\frac{3}{2}$ is established, under the assumption $u_{0}(x)\in H^{s}(\mathbb{R})\cap W^{1,\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ . Finally, the global weak solution and peakon solution for the equation are also given.