Reducibility for wave equations of finitely smooth potential with periodic boundary conditions

Jing Li, Yingte Sun, Bing Xie

Published 2018-02-16Version 1

In the present paper, the reducibility is derived for the wave equations with finitely smooth and time-quasi-periodic potential subjects to periodic boundary conditions. More exactly, the linear wave equation $u_{tt}-u_{xx}+Mu+\varepsilon (V_0(\omega t)u_{xx}+V(\omega t, x)u)=0,\;x\in \mathbb{R}/2\pi \mathbb{Z}$ can be reduced to a linear Hamiltonian system of a constant coefficient operator which is of pure imaginary point spectrum set, where $V$ is finitely smooth in $(t, x)$, quasi-periodic in time $t$ with Diophantine frequency $\omega\in \mathbb{R}^{n},$ and $V_0$ is finitely smooth and quasi-periodic in time $t$ with Diophantine frequency $\omega\in \mathbb{R}^{n},$ Moreover, it is proved that the corresponding wave operator possesses the property of pure point spectra and zero Lyapunov exponent.