Dynamics of Klein-Gordon on a compact surface near a homoclinic orbit (Q476704)

This paper deals with the Cauchy problem to the semilinear Klein-Gordon equation (KG): \(\partial^2_t u-\Delta u- m^2 u= u^{2p+1}= 0\), \(p\in\mathbb N^\ast\), \((t,x)\in\mathbb R\times M\), where \(M\) is a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary of dimension 1, 2, 3. It is a globally well-posed problem in the corresponding energy space. It turns out that KG admits a homoclinic orbit to the origin that can be written into explicit form: \(h(t)= (\beta'(t), \beta(t))\). The aim of the authors is to study the dynamics of KG near this special trajectory and to show the existence of solutions which remain close to this exact solution for all \(t\). More precisely, they state the existence of solutions that travel from a neighbourhood of \(0\) to turn around the equilibrium \(m^{1\over p}\), close to the homoclinic connection to \(0\). They also show the existence of a large family of heteroclinic connections to the center manifold that are close to the homoclinic orbit during all \(t\). The solutions constructed here are not small.