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Sine-Gordon on a wormhole

Analysis of PDEs 2021-08-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

In an attempt to understand the soliton resolution conjecture, we consider the Sine-Gordon equation on a spherically symmetric wormhole spacetime. We show that within each topological sector (indexed by a positive integer degree nn) there exists a unique linearly stable soliton, which we call the nn-kink. We give numerical evidence that the nn-kink is a global attractor in the evolution of any smooth, finite energy solutions of degree nn. When the radius of the wormhole throat aa is large enough, the convergence to the nn-kink is shown to be governed by internal modes that slowly decay due to the resonant transfer of energy to radiation. We compute the exact asymptotics of this relaxation process for the 11-kink using the Soffer-Weinstein weakly nonlinear perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.2012.11141,
  title  = {Sine-Gordon on a wormhole},
  author = {Piotr Bizoń and Maciej Dunajski and Michał Kahl and Michał Kowalczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.11141},
  year   = {2021}
}

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19 pages, 10 figures, final version

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