Nonexistence of small doubly periodic solutions for dispersive equations

DOI10.2140/APDE.2016.9.15zbMATH Open1339.35019arXiv1406.1527OpenAlexW2284259558MaRDI QIDQ2634830FDOQ2634830

J. Douglas Wright, David M. Ambrose

Publication date: 19 February 2016

Published in: Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the question of existence of time-periodic, spatially periodic solutions for dispersive evolution equations, and in particular, we introduce a framework for demonstrating the nonexistence of such solutions. We formulate the problem so that doubly periodic solutions correspond to fixed points of a certain operator. We prove that this operator is locally contracting, for almost every temporal period, if the Duhamel integral associated to the evolution exhibits a weak smoothing property. This implies the nonexistence of nontrivial, small-amplitude time-periodic solutions for almost every period if the smoothing property holds. This can be viewed as a partial analogue of scattering for dispersive equations on periodic intervals, since scattering in free space implies the nonexistence of small coherent structures. We use a normal form to demonstrate the smoothing property on specific examples, so that it can be seen that there are indeed equations for which the hypotheses of the general theorem hold. The nonexistence result is thus established through the novel combination of small divisor estimates and dispersive smoothing estimates. The examples treated include the Korteweg-de Vries equation and the Kawahara equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1527

zbMATH Keywords

smoothingsmall divisorsKawahara equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53)

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