On the stability of standing waves of Klein-Gordon equations in a semiclassical regime

Marco Ghimenti; Stefan Le Coz; Marco Squassina

doi:10.3934/dcds.2013.33.2389

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On the stability of standing waves of Klein-Gordon equations in a semiclassical regime

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Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata, Università di Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 1/c, 56127 Pisa
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Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9
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Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona

Received: January 2012

Revised: September 2012

Published: July 2013

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We investigate the orbital stability and instability of standing waves for two classes of Klein-Gordon equations in the semi-classical regime.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 35D99, 35J62, 58E05, 35J70.

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