Improved Lower Bounds of Analytic Radius for the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony Equation

This paper is devoted to the spatial analyticity of the solution of the BBM equation on the real line with an analytic initial data. It is shown that the analytic radius has a lower bound like t(-2/3) as the time t goes to infinity, which is an improvement of previous results. The main new ingredient is a higher order almost conservation law in analytic spaces. This is proved by introducing an equivalent analytic norm with smooth symbol and establishing some algebra identities of higher order polynomials.