A note on KAM theory for quasi-linear and fully nonlinear forced KdV (Q374118)

The note gives a short presentation of results in the preprint [the authors, ``KAM for quasi-linear and fully nonlinear forced KdV'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1211.6672}]. The authors obtain KAM results for the KdV equation with nonlinearity containing the third-order derivative \(\partial_{xxx}\) and quasi-periodic in time. For a quasi-nonlinear perturbation, an existence theorem is proved and the linear stability is shown in the Hamiltonian case. Then existence and linear stability are obtained for the KdV with fully nonlinear perturbations under the reversibility condition. From the abstract: ``The proofs are based on a combination of different ideas and techniques: (i) a Nash-Moser iterative scheme in Sobolev scales. (ii) A regularization procedure, which conjugates the linearized operator to a differential operator with constant coefficients plus a bounded remainder. These transformations are obtained by changes of variables induced by diffeomorphisms of the torus and pseudo-differential operators. (iii) A reducibility KAM scheme, which completes the reduction to constant coefficients of the linearized operator, providing a sharp asymptotic expansion of the perturbed eigenvalues.''