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Birkhoff Normal Form for Some Nonlinear PDEs

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 We consider the problem of extending to PDEs Birkhoff normal form theorem on Hamiltonian systems close to nonresonant elliptic equilibria. As a model problem we take the nonlinear wave equation

with Dirichlet boundary conditions on [0,π]; g is an analytic skewsymmetric function which vanishes for u=0 and is periodic with period 2π in the x variable. We prove, under a nonresonance condition which is fulfilled for most g's, that for any integer M there exists a canonical transformation that puts the Hamiltonian in Birkhoff normal form up to a reminder of order M. The canonical transformation is well defined in a neighbourhood of the origin of a Sobolev type phase space of sufficiently high order. Some dynamical consequences are obtained. The technique of proof is applicable to quite general semilinear equations in one space dimension.

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Received: 15 May 2002 / Accepted: 13 September 2002 Published online: 24 January 2003

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Bambusi, D. Birkhoff Normal Form for Some Nonlinear PDEs. Commun. Math. Phys. 234, 253–285 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-002-0774-4

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