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Energy cascade for the Klein-Gordon lattice

Dynamical Systems 2024-11-05 v4 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We study analytically the dynamics of a dd-dimensional Klein-Gordon lattice with periodic boundary conditions, for d3d \leq 3. We consider initial data supported on one low-frequency Fourier mode. We show that, in the continuous approximation, the resonant normal form of the system is given by a small-dispersion nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. By exploiting a result about the growth of Sobolev norms for solutions of small-dispersion NLS, we are able to describe an energy cascade phenomenon for the Klein-Gordon lattice, where part of the energy is transferred to modes associated to higher frequencies. Such phenomenon holds within the time-scale for which we can ensure the validity of the continuous approximation.

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@article{arxiv.2304.07146,
  title  = {Energy cascade for the Klein-Gordon lattice},
  author = {Stefano Pasquali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07146},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Changes with respect to previous version: changes to the presentation of the main result in Section 2 and in Section 6, changes to Section 3 and Appendix A, some comments added, some typos corrected. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1911.12648

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