Large-time blowup for a perturbation of the cubic Szegő equation

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Abstract: We consider the following Hamiltonian equation on a special manifold of rational functions, [ip_tu=Pi(|u|^2u)+al (u|1), alinR,] where Pi denotes the SzegH{o} projector on the Hardy space of the circle SS1. The equation with al=0 was first introduced by G{'e}rard and Grellier in cite{GG1} as a toy model for totally non dispersive evolution equations. We establish the following properties for this equation. For alextless0, any compact subset of initial data leads to a relatively compact subset of trajectories. For alextgreater0, there exist trajectories on which high Sobolev norms exponentially grow with time.


The paper addresses the so-called Szegő equation, which is written as \[ i\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}=\Pi(|u|^2u) +\alpha u_0, \] where \(u(t,\theta)\) is a function of time and a cyclic coordinate \(\theta\) (\(0 < \theta < 2\pi\)). \(\Pi\) stands for the so-called Szegő projection, which is defined through the Fourier decomposition of \(u(\theta)\), that is, \[ u(\theta) = \sum_{k=-\infty}^{+\infty} \hat{u}(k) e^{ik\theta} \] as \[ \Pi(u) \equiv \sum_{k \geq 0} \hat{u}(k) e^{ik\theta}, \] where \(\alpha\) is a real constant and \(u_0\) stands for the average value of \(u(\theta)\). This equation is a ``toy model of nonlinear dispersion equations. It was demonstrated before that this equation with \(\alpha = 0\) is integrable and, accordingly, that it admits a representation in the form of a Lax pair. This paper demonstrates that the equation with \(\alpha\neq 0\) also admits a Lax-pair representation, in terms of Hankel operators. The main issue here is the stability of solutions. It is demonstrated that the family of solutions is stable for \(\alpha < 0\) and that it includes solutions with an exponentially growing Sobolev norm for \(\alpha > 0\).











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