American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2013, 33(6): 2389-2401. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.2389

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

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata, Università di Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 1/c, 56127 Pisa, Italy 2 Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France 3 Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona, Italy

Received  January 2012 Revised  September 2012 Published  December 2012

We investigate the orbital stability and instability of standing waves for two classes of Klein-Gordon equations in the semi-classical regime.
Citation: Marco Ghimenti, Stefan Le Coz, Marco Squassina. On the stability of standing waves of Klein-Gordon equations in a semiclassical regime. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (6) : 2389-2401. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.2389
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References:
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Fortunato, Solitary waves of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation coupled with the Maxwell equations,, Rev. Math. Phys., 14 (2002), 409. doi: 10.1142/S0129055X02001168. Google Scholar [7] H. Berestycki and T. Cazenave, Instabilité des états stationnaires dans les équations de Schrödinger et de Klein-Gordon non linéaires,, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sé. I Math., 293 (1981), 489. Google Scholar [8] F. A. Berezin and M. A. Shubin, "The Schrödinger Equation,", 66 of Mathematics and its Applications (Soviet Series), 66 (1991). doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-3154-4. Google Scholar [9] T. Cazenave, "Semilinear Schrödinger Equations,", New York University - Courant Institute, (2003). Google Scholar [10] T. Cazenave and P.-L. Lions, Orbital stability of standing waves for some nonlinear Schrödinger equations,, Comm. Math. Phys., 85 (1982), 549. Google Scholar [11] S. Cuccagna, On the local existence for the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon system in $\R^{3+1}$,, Comm. 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Le Coz, Orbital stability of standing waves of a semiclassical nonlinear Schrödinger-Poisson equation,, Adv. Differential Equations, 14 (2009), 717. Google Scholar [18] L. Jeanjean and S. Le Coz, An existence and stability result for standing waves of nonlinear Schrödinger equations,, Adv. Differential Equations, 11 (2006), 813. Google Scholar [19] ______, Instability for standing waves of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations via mountain-pass arguments,, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 361 (2009), 5401. Google Scholar [20] M. Keel, T. Roy and T. Tao, Global well-posedness of the Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation below the energy norm,, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 30 (2011), 573. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2011.30.573. Google Scholar [21] S. Le Coz, Standing waves in nonlinear Schrödinger equations,, in, (2009), 151. Google Scholar [22] S. Le Coz, R. Fukuizumi, G. Fibich, B. Ksherim and Y. Sivan, Instability of bound states of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a Dirac potential,, Phys. D, 237 (2008), 1103. doi: 10.1016/j.physd.2007.12.004. Google Scholar [23] T.-C. Lin and J. Wei, Orbital stability of bound states of semiclassical nonlinear Schrödinger equations with critical nonlinearity,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 40 (2008), 365. doi: 10.1137/070683842. Google Scholar [24] Y. Liu, M. Ohta and G. Todorova, Instabilité forte d'ondes solitaires pour des équations de Klein-Gordon non linéaires et des équations généralisées de Boussinesq,, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire, 24 (2007), 539. doi: 10.1016/j.anihpc.2006.03.005. Google Scholar [25] E. Long and D. Stuart, Effective dynamics for solitons in the nonlinear Klein-Gordon-Maxwell system and the Lorentz force law,, Rev. Math. Phys., 21 (2009), 459. doi: 10.1142/S0129055X09003669. Google Scholar [26] Y.-G. Oh, Stability of semiclassical bound states of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with potentials,, Comm. Math. Phys., 121 (1989), 11. Google Scholar [27] M. Ohta and G. Todorova, Strong instability of standing waves for nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations,, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 12 (2005), 315. doi: 10.1137/050643015. Google Scholar [28] ______, Instability of standing waves for nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation and related system,, in, 26 (2006), 189. Google Scholar [29] ______, Strong instability of standing waves for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation and the Klein-Gordon-Zakharov system,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 38 (2007), 1912. Google Scholar [30] J. Shatah, Unstable ground state of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations,, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 290 (1985), 701. doi: 10.2307/2000308. Google Scholar [31] J. Shatah and W. A. Strauss, Instability of nonlinear bound states,, Comm. Math. Phys., 100 (1985), 173. Google Scholar [32] C. D. Sogge, Lectures on non-linear wave equations,, International Press, (2008). Google Scholar [33] C. A. Stuart, Lectures on the orbital stability of standing waves and application to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation,, Milan J. Math., 76 (2008), 329. doi: 10.1007/s00032-008-0089-9. Google Scholar [34] D. M. A. Stuart, Modulational approach to stability of non-topological solitons in semilinear wave equations,, J. Math. Pures Appl. (9), 80 (2001), 51. doi: 10.1016/S0021-7824(00)01189-2. Google Scholar [35] T. Tao, Why are solitons stable?,, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 46 (2009), 1. doi: 10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01228-7. Google Scholar [36] G. Vaira, Semiclassical states for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon-Maxwell system,, J. Pure Appl. Math. Adv. Appl., 4 (2010), 59. Google Scholar [37] M. I. Weinstein, Nonlinear Schrödinger equations and sharp interpolation estimates,, Comm. Math. Phys., 87 (): 567. Google Scholar [38] M. I. Weinstein, Modulational stability of ground states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 16 (1985), 472. doi: 10.1137/0516034. Google Scholar [39] Y. Yu, Vortex dynamics for the nonlinear Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equation,, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 201 (2011), 743. doi: 10.1007/s00205-011-0422-2. Google Scholar
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