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Multi-solitary waves for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation

Analysis of PDEs 2014-10-01 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation in Rd\R^d. We call multi-solitary waves a solution behaving at large time as a sum of boosted standing waves. Our main result is the existence of such multi-solitary waves, provided the composing boosted standing waves are stable. It is obtained by solving the equation backward in time around a sequence of approximate multi-solitary waves and showing convergence to a solution with the desired property. The main ingredients of the proof are finite speed of propagation, variational characterizations of the profiles, modulation theory and energy estimates.

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@article{arxiv.1302.3814,
  title  = {Multi-solitary waves for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation},
  author = {Jacopo Bellazzini and Marco Ghimenti and Stefan Le Coz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3814},
  year   = {2014}
}
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