Analysis Seminar

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On no-return theorems in nonlinear dispersive PDEs

Speaker: Wilhelm SCHLAG, Yale

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1302

Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019, 11 a.m.

Synopsis:

In 2010 Nakanishi and the speaker introduced a "one-pass
theorem" which precludes solutions to nonlinear wave equations
starting from a small neighborhood of a ground state soliton and which
return to another such neighborhood after some finite time. Such
statements are non-perturbative and require global arguments. In the
original setting invariant manifolds played an essential role,
especially the one-dimensional unstable manifold  associated with the
steady-state solution. I will review these results, and discuss some
of their ramifications over the past ten years.