Nonexistence of small, odd breathers for a class of nonlinear wave equations

Abstract: In this note, we show that for a large class of nonlinear wave equations with odd nonlinearities, any globally defined odd solution which is small in the energy space decays to

0

in the local energy norm. In particular, this result shows nonexistence of small, odd breathers for some classical nonlinear Klein Gordon equations such as the sine Gordon equation and

p h i^{4}

and

p h i^{6}

models. It also partially answers a question of Soffer and Weinstein in cite[p. 19]{MR1681113} about nonexistence of breathers for the cubic NLKG in dimension one.

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The paper addresses one-dimensional real scalar nonlinear PDE of the form \[ u_{tt}-u_{xx} = mu +f(u), \] where \(m=\)const, and \(f(u)\) is an odd function. Examples are the sine-Gordon equation, phi-4 and phi-6 equations, etc. The paper produces a rigorous proof of a known conjecture that this equation cannot give rise to odd breathers, i.e., spatially localized time-periodic modes, which are odd functions of \(x\) (as is commonly known, the sine-Gordon equation generates exact breather solutions which are even functions of \(x\)).

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