Invariant Manifolds for Capillary Waves and a Class of Quasilinear PDEs

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author Shatah, Jalal
Zeng, Chongchun
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Zeng, Chongchun
contents This paper studies the local stable and unstable manifolds of equilibria for quasilinear and fully nonlinear PDEs. These manifolds are fundamental objects in the analysis of local dynamics. While their existence is well understood for ODEs, semilinear PDEs, and certain parabolic-type quasilinear PDEs, invariant manifold theorems are often unavailable for quasilinear PDEs whose nonlinearities involve a loss of regularity and whose linear parts do not provide sufficient smoothing. Our main results establish the existence, uniqueness, and smoothness of local stable and unstable manifolds for nonlinear PDEs that satisfy suitable energy estimates. With the main focus on irrotational water waves with surface tension, this framework applies to a broad class of PDEs, including nonlinear Schrödinger equations, nonlinear wave equations, and the MMT model, as well as to certain gradient-type PDEs.
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spellingShingle Invariant Manifolds for Capillary Waves and a Class of Quasilinear PDEs
Shatah, Jalal
Zeng, Chongchun
Analysis of PDEs
This paper studies the local stable and unstable manifolds of equilibria for quasilinear and fully nonlinear PDEs. These manifolds are fundamental objects in the analysis of local dynamics. While their existence is well understood for ODEs, semilinear PDEs, and certain parabolic-type quasilinear PDEs, invariant manifold theorems are often unavailable for quasilinear PDEs whose nonlinearities involve a loss of regularity and whose linear parts do not provide sufficient smoothing. Our main results establish the existence, uniqueness, and smoothness of local stable and unstable manifolds for nonlinear PDEs that satisfy suitable energy estimates. With the main focus on irrotational water waves with surface tension, this framework applies to a broad class of PDEs, including nonlinear Schrödinger equations, nonlinear wave equations, and the MMT model, as well as to certain gradient-type PDEs.
title Invariant Manifolds for Capillary Waves and a Class of Quasilinear PDEs
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17844