{ "id": "1803.06250", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-03-16T14:38:29.000Z", "updated": "2018-03-16T14:38:29.000Z", "title": "On the nonlinear wave equation with time periodic potential", "authors": [ "Vesselin Petkov Nikolay Tzvetkov" ], "categories": [ "math.AP", "math-ph", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "It is known that for some time periodic potentials $q(t, x) \\geq 0$ having compact support with respect to $x$ some solutions of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation $\\partial_t^2 u - \\Delta_x u + q(t,x)u = 0$ have exponentially increasing energy as $t \\to \\infty$. We show that if one adds a nonlinear defocusing interaction $|u|^ru, 2\\leq r < 4,$ then the solution of the nonlinear wave equation exists for all $t \\in {\\mathbb R}$ and its energy is polynomially bounded as $t \\to \\infty$ for every choice of $q$. Moreover, we prove that the zero solution of the nonlinear wave equation is instable if the corresponding linear equation has the property mentioned above.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-03-16T14:38:29.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "35L71", "35L15" ], "keywords": [ "nonlinear wave equation", "time periodic potential", "compact support", "corresponding linear equation", "zero solution" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }