Long Time Dynamics of Quasi-linear Hamiltonian Klein–Gordon Equations on the Circle

Abstract

AbstractWe consider a class of Hamiltonian Klein–Gordon equations with a quasilinear, quadratic nonlinearity under periodic boundary conditions. For a large set of masses, we provide a precise description of the dynamics for an open set of small initial data of size $$\varepsilon $$ ε showing that the corresponding solutions remain close to oscillatory motions over a time scale $$\varepsilon ^{{-\frac{9}{4}+\delta }}$$ ε - 9 4 + δ for any $$\delta >0$$ δ > 0 . The key ingredients of the proof are normal form methods, para-differential calculus and a modified energy approach.