Long-time asymptotics of the damped nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with a delta potential

Abstract

We consider the damped nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with a delta potential \begin{align*} \partial_{t}^2u-\partial_{x}^2u+2α\partial_{t}u+u-γδ_0u-|u|^{p-1}u=0, \ & (t,x) \in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}, \end{align*} where $p>2$, $\alpha >0,\gamma <2$, and ${\delta }_0={\delta }_0(x)$ denotes the Dirac delta with the mass at the origin. When $\gamma =0$, Côte, Martel and Yuan proved that any global solution either converges to 0 or to the sum of $K\ge 1$ decoupled solitary waves which have alternative signs. In this paper, we first prove that any global solution either converges to 0 or to the sum of $K\ge 1$ decoupled solitary waves. Next we construct a single solitary wave solution that moves away from the origin when $\gamma <0$ and construct an even 2-solitary wave solution when $\gamma \le -2$. Last we give single solitary wave solutions and even 2-solitary wave solutions an upper bound for the distance between the origin and the solitary wave.

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