Long-time existence for semi-linear beam equations on irrational tori

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Abstract: We consider the semi-linear beam equation on the d dimensional irrational torus with smooth nonlinearity of order n -- 1 with n ge 3 and d ge 2. If epsilon ll 1 is the size of the initial datum, we prove that the lifespan Tepsilon of solutions is O(epsilon --A(n--2) --) where A otequiv A(d, n) = 1 + 3 d--1 when n is even and A = 1 + 3 d--1 + max(4--d d--1 , 0) when n is odd. For instance for d = 2 and n = 3 (quadratic nonlinearity) we obtain Tepsilon = O(epsilon --6 --), much better than O(epsilon --1), the time given by the local existence theory. The irrationality of the torus makes the set of differences between two eigenvalues of sqrt Delta 2 + 1 accumulate to zero, facilitating the exchange between the high Fourier modes and complicating the control of the solutions over long times. Our result is obtained by combining a Birkhoff normal form step and a modified energy step.



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