Global dynamics above the ground state energy for the one-dimensional NLKG equation

TL;DR

This paper characterizes the global dynamics of even solutions to the one-dimensional focusing NLKG equation with energy slightly above the ground state, overcoming challenges posed by weak dispersion through new local dispersive estimates.

Contribution

It extends the three-dimensional analysis to one dimension by constructing a center-stable manifold and establishing local dispersive estimates without threshold resonance.

Findings

Global dynamics characterized for solutions above ground state energy

Construction of a center-stable manifold in 1D NLKG

Development of local dispersive estimates for perturbed linear Klein-Gordon

Abstract

In this paper we obtain a global characterization of the dynamics of even solutions to the one-dimensional nonlinear Klein-Gordon (NLKG) equation on the line with focusing nonlinearity |u|^{p-1}u, p>5, provided their energy exceeds that of the ground state only sightly. The method is the same as in the three-dimensional case arXiv:1005.4894, the major difference being in the construction of the center-stable manifold. The difficulty there lies with the weak dispersive decay of 1-dimensional NLKG. In order to address this specific issue, we establish local dispersive estimates for the perturbed linear Klein-Gordon equation, similar to those of Mizumachi arXiv:math/0605031. The essential ingredient for the latter class of estimates is the absence of a threshold resonance of the linearized operator.