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Refined asymptotics around solitons for gKdV equations

Analysis of PDEs 2007-10-18 v2

Abstract

We consider the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation tu+x(x2u+f(u))=0,(t,x)[0,T)×R \partial_t u + \partial_x (\partial_x^2 u + f(u))=0, \quad (t,x)\in [0,T)\times \mathbb{R} with general C2C^2 nonlinearity ff. Under an explicit condition on ff and c>0c>0, there exists a solution in the energy space H1H^1 of the type u(t,x)=Qc(xx0ct)u(t,x)=Q_c(x-x_0-ct), called soliton. Stability theory for QcQ_c is well-known. In previous works, we have proved that for f(u)=upf(u)=u^p, p=2,3,4p=2,3,4, the family of solitons is asymptotically stable in some local sense in H1H^1, i.e. if u(t)u(t) is close to QcQ_{c} (for all t0t\geq 0), then u(t,.+ρ(t))u(t,.+\rho(t)) locally converges in the energy space to some Qc+Q_{c_+} as t+t\to +\infty, for some c+cc^+\sim c. Then, the asymptotic stability result could be extended to the case of general assumptions on ff and QcQ_c. The objective of this paper is twofold. The main objective is to prove that in the case f(u)=upf(u)=u^p, p=2,3,4p=2,3,4, ρ(t)c+t\rho(t)-c_+ t has limit as t+t\to +\infty under the additional assumption x+uL2x_+ u\in L^2. The second objective of this paper is to provide large time stability and asymptotic stability results for two soliton solutions for the case of general nonlinearity f(u)f(u), when the ratio of the speeds of the solitons is small. The motivation is to accompany forthcoming works devoted to the collision of two solitons in the nonintegrable case. The arguments are refinements of previous works specialized to the case u(t)Qc1+Qc2u(t)\sim Q_{c_1}+Q_{c_2}, for 0<c2c10< c_2 \ll c_1.

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@article{arxiv.0706.1178,
  title  = {Refined asymptotics around solitons for gKdV equations},
  author = {Yvan Martel and Frank Merle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.1178},
  year   = {2007}
}
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