Asymptotic stability of solitons for subcritical generalized KdV equations

Citation
Y. Martel et F. Merle, Asymptotic stability of solitons for subcritical generalized KdV equations, ARCH R MECH, 157(3), 2001, pp. 219-254
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics,"Mechanical Engineering
Journal title
ARCHIVE FOR RATIONAL MECHANICS AND ANALYSIS
ISSN journal
00039527 → ACNP
Volume
157
Issue
3
Year of publication
2001
Pages
219 - 254
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-9527(2001)157:3<219:ASOSFS>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We prove in this paper the asymptotic completeness of the family of soliton s in the energy space for generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations in the su bcritical case (this includes in particular the KdV equation and the modifi ed KdV equation). This result is obtained as a consequence of a rigidity th eorem on the flow close to a soliton up to a scaling and a translation, whi ch has its own interest. The proofs use some tools introduced in a previous paper to prove similar results in the case of critical generalized KdV equ ation.