Stability of large periodic solutions of Klein-Gordon near a homoclinic orbit (Q2344114)
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Stability of large periodic solutions of Klein-Gordon near a homoclinic orbit (English)
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12 May 2015
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This work is devoted to the stability of periodic orbits in the Klein-Gordon equation on a compact manifold. For example, the results apply to the torus, when the problem is closed with periodic boundary conditions. The problem corresponds to the situation when the zero equilibrium point is unstable with exactly one unstable direction. There exists a homoclinic orbit to the zero equilibrium, which depends only on time. In addition, there exist periodic orbits inside the separatrix loop, which are sufficiently close to the homoclinic orbit. By a shadowing method, the authors prove that solutions stay close to the periodic orbits on the time interval of the size \((\log \eta)^2\), where \(\eta\) is the distance between the perturbed periodic orbit and the homoclinic orbit. The proof relies on the following two main ingredients: (1) the Hamiltonian is negative on the trajectory, which implies a confinement of the solution, and (2) the trajectory is close to the homoclinic orbit, which induces the characteristic time for a single loop. Numerical simulations confirm the stability result even for longer timescales. The authors suggest that extended stability should be derived by a different analytical method, perhaps, by the KAM theory.
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Klein-Gordon equation
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wave equation
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homoclinic orbit
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periodic orbits
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stability
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