Long time behavior of the solutions of NLW on the d-dimensional torus

Joackim Bernier (1) , Erwan Faou (2, 1) , Benoit Grebert (3)

1 MINGUS - Multi-scale numerical geometric schemes
2 IRMAR - Institut de Recherche Mathématique de Rennes
3 LMJL - Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray

We consider the non linear wave equation (NLW) on the d-dimensional torus with a smooth nonlinearity of order at least two at the origin. We prove that, for almost any mass, small and smooth solutions of high Sobolev indices are stable up to arbitrary long times with respect to the size of the initial data.To prove this result we use a normal form transformation decomposing the dynamics into low and high frequencies with weak interactions. While the low part of the dynamics can be put under classical Birkhoff normal form, the high modes evolve according to a time dependent linear Hamiltonian system. We then control the global dynamics by using polynomial growth estimates for high modes and the preservation of Sobolev norms for the low modes. Our general strategy applies to any semi-linear Hamiltonian PDEs whose linear frequencies satisfy a very general non resonance condition.The (NLW) equation on a torus is a good example since the standard Birkhoff normal form applies only when d=1 while our strategy applies in any dimension.

Domaines: Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]

Joackim Bernier, Erwan Faou, Benoit Grebert. Long time behavior of the solutions of NLW on the d-dimensional torus. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, 2020, 8, pp.E12. ⟨10.1017/fms.2020.8⟩. ⟨hal-02151338v2⟩