Asymptotic stability of breathers in some Hamiltonian networks of weakly coupled oscillators (Q380337)

The author considers a Hamiltonian net of weakly coupled anharmonic oscillators, for which the coupling is sufficiently weak to guarantee for the existence of families of periodic solutions, so called breathers. It is proved that breathers are asymptotically stable at least when the nonlinear part of the on-site potential is of order \(V(q)=O(|q|^8), q\to 0\) in the norm of a suitable functional space, particularly in the energy norm. The proof consists of two steps, the first one uses the canonical perturbation theory in order to put the dynamical system in a suitable normal form, while the second one consists in the proof and application of suitable Strichartz estimates [\textit{S. Gustafson} et al., Int. Math. Res. Not. 2004, No. 66, 3559--3584 (2004; Zbl 1072.35167)]. The author emphasizes that this result is one of the few examples of asymptotic stability of equilibria in Hamiltonian systems for objects which are neither equilibria nor relative equilibria.