Stability of large periodic solutions of Klein-Gordon near a homoclinic orbit

Benoît Grébert (1) , Tiphaine Jézéquel (2) , Laurent Thomann (1)

1 LMJL - Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray
2 IRMAR - Institut de Recherche Mathématique de Rennes

We consider a Klein-Gordon equation (KG) on a Riemannian compact surface, for which the flow lets invariant the two dimensional space the solutions independent of the space variable. It turns out that in this invariant space, there is a homoclinic orbit to the origin, and a family of periodic solutions inside the loops of the homoclinic orbit. In this paper we study the stability of these periodic orbits under the (KG) flow, i.e. when turning on the nonlinear interaction with the non stationary modes. By a shadowing method, we prove that around the periodic orbits, solutions stay close to them during a time of order $(\log a)^2$, where $a$ is the distance between the periodic orbit considered and the homoclinic orbit.

Mots clés: center manifold; homoclinic orbit; Klein-Gordon equation; wave equation

Domaines: Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]; Mathématiques [math]

Benoît Grébert, Tiphaine Jézéquel, Laurent Thomann. Stability of large periodic solutions of Klein-Gordon near a homoclinic orbit. Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2015, 25 (2), pp.371--388. ⟨hal-00914828v2⟩