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A reducibility result for a class of linear wave equations on $\mathbb{T}^d$

Analysis of PDEs 2017-08-10 v2

Abstract

We prove a reducibility result for a class of quasi-periodically forced linear wave equations on the dd-dimensional torus Td\mathbb{T}^d of the form ttvΔv+εP(ωt)[v]=0 \partial_{tt} v - \Delta v + \varepsilon {\cal P}(\omega t)[v] = 0 where the perturbation P(ωt){\cal P}(\omega t) is a second order operator of the form P(ωt)=a(ωt)ΔR(ωt){\cal P}(\omega t) = - a(\omega t) \Delta - {\cal R}(\omega t), the frequency ωRν\omega \in {\cal R}^\nu is in some Borel set of large Lebesgue measure, the function a:TνRa : \mathbb{T}^\nu \to {\cal R} (independent of the space variable) is sufficiently smooth and R(ωt){\cal R}(\omega t) is a time-dependent finite rank operator. This is the first reducibility result for linear wave equations with unbounded perturbations on the higher dimensional torus Td\mathbb{T}^d. As a corollary, we get that the linearized Kirchhoff equation at a smooth and sufficiently small quasi-periodic function is reducible.

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@article{arxiv.1702.06880,
  title  = {A reducibility result for a class of linear wave equations on $\mathbb{T}^d$},
  author = {Riccardo Montalto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.06880},
  year   = {2017}
}

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50 pages. version 2. change of the title and other minor changes with respect to the previous version

R2 v1 2026-06-22T18:25:30.912Z