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Sine-Gordon on a wormhole

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Authors

Bizoń, P 
Dunajski, M 
Kahl, M 
Kowalczyk, M 

Abstract

In an attempt to understand the soliton resolution conjecture, we consider the Sine-Gordon equation on a spherically symmetric wormhole spacetime. We show that within each topological sector (indexed by a positive integer degree n) there exists a unique linearly stable soliton, which we call the n-kink. We give numerical evidence that the n-kink is a global attractor in the evolution of any smooth, finite energy solutions of degree n. When the radius of the wormhole throat a is large enough, the convergence to the n-kink is shown to be governed by internal modes that slowly decay due to the resonant transfer of energy to radiation. We compute the exact asymptotics of this relaxation process for the 1-kink using the Soffer-Weinstein weakly nonlinear perturbation theory.

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Keywords

soliton resolution conjecture, asymptotic stability of solitons, nonlinear dispersive equations

Journal Title

Nonlinearity

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Journal ISSN

0951-7715
1361-6544

Volume Title

34

Publisher

IOP Publishing
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/P000681/1)
STFC (ST/T000694/1)