Effective integrable dynamics for a certain nonlinear wave equation

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Abstract: We consider the following degenerate half wave equation on the one dimensional torus quad ipartial_t u-|D|u=|u|^2u, ; u(0,cdot)=u_0. We show that, on a large time interval, the solution may be approximated by the solution of a completely integrable system-- the cubic Szeg"o equation. As a consequence, we prove an instability result for large Hs norms of solutions of this wave equation.


The authors consider the degenerate half-wave equation on the one-dimensional torus \[ i\partial_{t}u-|D|u=|u|^{2}u,\quad u(0,\cdot)=u_{0}. \tag{1} \] Thanks to a resonant Birkhoff normal form reduction, they show that the equation can be well approximated for long times by the cubic Szegö equation, which was introduced and studied in a previous work by the authors. As a consequence, they show an instability phenomenon in Sobolev norms for (1).




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