New Bounds for the Inhomogenous Burgers and the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equations

We give a substantially simplified proof of the near-optimal estimate on the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation from a previous paper of the third author, at the same time slightly improving the result. That result relied on two ingredients: a regularity estimate for capillary Burgers and an a novel priori estimate for the inhomogeneous inviscid Burgers equation, which works out that in many ways the conservative transport nonlinearity acts as a coercive term. It is the proof of the second ingredient that we substantially simplify by proving a modified Kármán-Howarth-Monin identity for solutions of the inhomogeneous inviscid Burgers equation. We show that this provides a new interpretation of recent results obtained by Golse and Perthame.