TY - JOUR
T1 - The onset of instability in first-order systems
AU - Lerner, Nicolas
AU - Nguyen, Toan
AU - Texier, Benjamin
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Acknowledgments. T.N. was supported by the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris through a postdoctoral grant. B.T. thanks Yong Lu and Baptiste Morisse for their remarks on an earlier version of the manuscript. The authors thank the referees for detailed and useful remarks.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - We study the Cauchy problem for first-order quasi-linear systems of partial differential equations. When the spectrum of the initial principal symbol is not included in the real line, i.e., hyperbolicity is violated at initial time, the Cauchy problem is strongly unstable in the sense of Hadamard. This phenomenon, which extends the linear Lax–Mizohata theorem, was explained by G. Métivier [Contemp. Math. 368, 2005]. In the present paper, we are interested in the transition from hyperbolicity to non-hyperbolicity, that is, the limiting case where hyperbolicity holds at initial time, but is violated at positive times: under that hypothesis, we generalize a recent work by N. Lerner, Y. Morimoto and C.-J. Xu [Amer. J. Math. 132 (2010)] on complex scalar systems, as we prove that even a weak defect of hyperbolicity implies a strong Hadamard instability. Our examples include Burgers systems, Van der Waals gas dynamics, and Klein–Gordon–Zakharov systems. Our analysis relies on an approximation result for pseudo-differential flows, proved by B. Texier [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 65 (2016)].
AB - We study the Cauchy problem for first-order quasi-linear systems of partial differential equations. When the spectrum of the initial principal symbol is not included in the real line, i.e., hyperbolicity is violated at initial time, the Cauchy problem is strongly unstable in the sense of Hadamard. This phenomenon, which extends the linear Lax–Mizohata theorem, was explained by G. Métivier [Contemp. Math. 368, 2005]. In the present paper, we are interested in the transition from hyperbolicity to non-hyperbolicity, that is, the limiting case where hyperbolicity holds at initial time, but is violated at positive times: under that hypothesis, we generalize a recent work by N. Lerner, Y. Morimoto and C.-J. Xu [Amer. J. Math. 132 (2010)] on complex scalar systems, as we prove that even a weak defect of hyperbolicity implies a strong Hadamard instability. Our examples include Burgers systems, Van der Waals gas dynamics, and Klein–Gordon–Zakharov systems. Our analysis relies on an approximation result for pseudo-differential flows, proved by B. Texier [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 65 (2016)].
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U2 - 10.4171/JEMS/788
DO - 10.4171/JEMS/788
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85046894686
SN - 1435-9855
VL - 20
SP - 1303
EP - 1373
JO - Journal of the European Mathematical Society
JF - Journal of the European Mathematical Society
IS - 6
ER -