Characteristic approach to the soliton resolution

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AC7B04zbMATH Open1495.35078arXiv2112.11249OpenAlexW4285598237MaRDI QIDQ5089489FDOQ5089489

Authors: Piotr Bizoń, Bradley Cownden, Maciej Maliborski 

Publication date: 19 July 2022

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: As a toy model for understanding the soliton resolution phenomenon we consider a characteristic initial boundary value problem for the 4$d$ equivariant Yang-Mills equation outside a ball. Our main objective is to illustrate the advantages of employing outgoing null (or asymptotically null) foliations in analyzing the relaxation processes due to the dispersal of energy by radiation. In particular, within this approach it is evident that the endstate of evolution must be non-radiative (meaning vanishing flux of energy at future null infinity). In our toy model such non-radiative configurations are given by a static solution (called the half-kink) plus an alternating chain of $N$ decoupled kinks and antikinks. We show numerically that the configurations $N=0$ (static half-kink) and $N=1$ (superposition of the static half-kink and the antikink which recedes to infinity) appear as generic attractors and we determine a codimension-one borderline between their basins of attraction. The rates of convergence to these attractors are analyzed in detail.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11249

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zbMATH Keywords

antikinkYang-Mills equationsoliton resolutiondispersive wave equationshalf-kink

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L20) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71)

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