Time-averaging for weakly nonlinear CGL equations with arbitrary potentials

TL;DR

This paper establishes that the long-term behavior of weakly nonlinear complex Ginzburg--Landau equations with arbitrary potentials can be effectively described by a resonant averaged equation, even under stochastic perturbations, over time scales of order ^{-1}.

Contribution

It introduces a rigorous averaging method for weakly nonlinear CGL equations with arbitrary potentials, including stochastic effects, over long time scales, extending previous results to more general settings.

Findings

The limiting behavior of solutions is characterized by a well-posed effective equation.

The approach applies to bounded domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions.

Results hold for equations with stochastic perturbations of order ^{1/2}.

Abstract

Consider weakly nonlinear complex Ginzburg--Landau (CGL) equation of the form: $$ u_t+i(-\Delta u+V(x)u)=\epsilon\mu\Delta u+\epsilon \mathcal{P}( u),\quad x\in {R^d}\,, \quad(*) $$ under the periodic boundary conditions, where $\mu\geqslant0$ and $\mathcal{P}$ is a smooth function. Let $\{\zeta_1(x),\zeta_2(x),\dots\}$ be the $L_2$-basis formed by eigenfunctions of the operator $-\Delta +V(x)$. For a complex function $u(x)$, write it as $u(x)=\sum_{k\geqslant1}v_k\zeta_k(x)$ and set $I_k(u)=\frac{1}{2}|v_k|^2$. Then for any solution $u(t,x)$ of the linear equation $(*)_{\epsilon=0}$ we have $I(u(t,\cdot))=const$. In this work it is proved that if equation $(*)$ with a sufficiently smooth real potential $V(x)$ is well posed on time-intervals $t\lesssim \epsilon^{-1}$, then for any its solution $u^{\epsilon}(t,x)$, the limiting behavior of the curve $I(u^{\epsilon}(t,\cdot))$ on time intervals of order $\epsilon^{-1}$, as $\epsilon\to0$, can be uniquely characterized by a solution of a certain well-posed effective equation: $$ u_t=\epsilon\mu\triangle u+\epsilon F(u), $$ where $F(u)$ is a resonant averaging of the nonlinearity $\mathcal{P}(u)$. We also prove a similar results for the stochastically perturbed equation, when a white in time and smooth in $x$ random force of order $\sqrt\epsilon$ is added to the right-hand side of the equation. The approach of this work is rather general. In particular, it applies to equations in bounded domains in $R^d$ under Dirichlet boundary conditions.