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Reducibility and nonlinear stability for a quasi-periodically forced NLS. (English) Zbl 1541.35323

Summary: Motivated by the problem of long time stability vs. instability of KAM tori of the Nonlinear cubic Schrödinger equation (NLS) on the two dimensional torus \(\mathbb{T}^2:=(\mathbb{R}/2\pi\mathbb{Z})^2\), we consider a quasi-periodically forced NLS equation on \(\mathbb{T}^2\) arising from the linearization of the NLS at a KAM torus. We prove a reducibility result as well as long time stability of the origin. The main novelty is to obtain the precise asymptotic expansion of the frequencies which allows us to impose Melnikov conditions at arbitrary order.

MSC:

35P15 Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs
35J10 Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation
35B35 Stability in context of PDEs
35Q55 NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations)
37K55 Perturbations, KAM theory for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems