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Instability of the standing waves for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations in one dimension

Analysis of PDEs 2018-01-16 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation \begin{align*} \partial_{tt}u-\Delta u+u=|u|^{p-1}u,\qquad t\in \mathbb{R},\ x\in \mathbb{R}^d, \end{align*} with 1<p<1+4d1<p< 1+\frac{4}{d}. The equation has the standing wave solutions uω=eiωtϕωu_\omega=e^{i\omega t}\phi_{\omega} with the frequency ω(1,1)\omega\in(-1,1), where ϕω\phi_{\omega} obeys \begin{align*} -\Delta \phi+(1-\omega^2)\phi-\phi^p=0. \end{align*} It was proved by Shatah (1983), and Shatah, Strauss (1985) that there exists a critical frequency ωc(0,1)\omega_c\in (0,1) such that the standing waves solution uωu_\omega is orbitally stable when ωc<ω<1\omega_c<|\omega|<1, and orbitally unstable when ω<ωc|\omega|<\omega_c. Further, the critical case ω=ωc|\omega|=\omega_c in the high dimension d2d\ge 2 was considered by Ohta, Todorova (2007), who proved that it is strongly unstable, by using the virial identities and the radial Sobolev inequality. The one dimension problem was left after then. In this paper, we consider the one-dimension problem and prove that it is orbitally unstable when ω=ωc|\omega|=\omega_c.

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@article{arxiv.1705.04216,
  title  = {Instability of the standing waves for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations in one dimension},
  author = {Yifei Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.04216},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

18 Pages, add a reference and the proof of some lemmas