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Decay and asymptotics for the 1D Klein-Gordon equation with variable coefficient cubic nonlinearities

Analysis of PDEs 2020-09-22 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We obtain sharp decay estimates and asymptotics for small solutions to the one-dimensional Klein-Gordon equation with constant coefficient cubic and spatially localized, variable coefficient cubic nonlinearities. Vector-field techniques to deal with the long-range nature of the cubic nonlinearity become problematic in the presence of variable coefficients. We introduce a novel approach based on pointwise-in-time local decay estimates for the Klein-Gordon propagator to overcome this impasse.

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@article{arxiv.1907.09922,
  title  = {Decay and asymptotics for the 1D Klein-Gordon equation with variable coefficient cubic nonlinearities},
  author = {Hans Lindblad and Jonas Luhrmann and Avy Soffer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.09922},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

27 pages. Minor revisions. To appear in SIAM J. Math. Anal

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