Bifurcation from multiple eigenvalues of rotating traveling waves on a capillary liquid drop

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Autori principali: Baldi, Pietro, La Manna, Domenico Angelo, La Scala, Giuseppe
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author Baldi, Pietro
La Manna, Domenico Angelo
La Scala, Giuseppe
author_facet Baldi, Pietro
La Manna, Domenico Angelo
La Scala, Giuseppe
contents We consider the free boundary problem for a liquid drop of nearly spherical shape with capillarity, and we study the existence of nontrivial (i.e., non spherical) rotating traveling profiles bifurcating from the spherical shape, where the bifurcation parameter is the angular velocity. We prove that every eigenvalue of the linearized problem is a bifurcation point, extending the known result for simple eigenvalues to the general case of eigenvalues of any multiplicity. We also obtain a lower bound on the number of bifurcating solutions. The proof is based on the Hamiltonian structure of the problem and on the variational argument of constrained critical points for traveling waves of Craig and Nicholls (2000, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 32, 323-359), adapted to the nearly spherical geometry; in particular, the role of the action functional is played here by the angular momentum with respect to the rotation axis. Moreover, the bifurcation equation presents a 2-dimensional degeneration, related to some symmetries of the physical problem. This additional difficulty is overcome thanks to a crucial transversality property, obtained by using the Hamiltonian structure and the prime integrals corresponding to those symmetries by Noether theorem, which are the fluid mass and the component along the rotation axis of the velocity of the fluid barycenter.
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spellingShingle Bifurcation from multiple eigenvalues of rotating traveling waves on a capillary liquid drop
Baldi, Pietro
La Manna, Domenico Angelo
La Scala, Giuseppe
Analysis of PDEs
35R35, 35B32, 35C07, 76B45, 35B38
We consider the free boundary problem for a liquid drop of nearly spherical shape with capillarity, and we study the existence of nontrivial (i.e., non spherical) rotating traveling profiles bifurcating from the spherical shape, where the bifurcation parameter is the angular velocity. We prove that every eigenvalue of the linearized problem is a bifurcation point, extending the known result for simple eigenvalues to the general case of eigenvalues of any multiplicity. We also obtain a lower bound on the number of bifurcating solutions. The proof is based on the Hamiltonian structure of the problem and on the variational argument of constrained critical points for traveling waves of Craig and Nicholls (2000, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 32, 323-359), adapted to the nearly spherical geometry; in particular, the role of the action functional is played here by the angular momentum with respect to the rotation axis. Moreover, the bifurcation equation presents a 2-dimensional degeneration, related to some symmetries of the physical problem. This additional difficulty is overcome thanks to a crucial transversality property, obtained by using the Hamiltonian structure and the prime integrals corresponding to those symmetries by Noether theorem, which are the fluid mass and the component along the rotation axis of the velocity of the fluid barycenter.
title Bifurcation from multiple eigenvalues of rotating traveling waves on a capillary liquid drop
topic Analysis of PDEs
35R35, 35B32, 35C07, 76B45, 35B38
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01555