Stability and instability of the KdV solitary wave under the KP-I flow

We consider the KP-I and gKP-I equations in $\mathbb{R}\times (\mathbb{R}/2\pi \mathbb{Z})$. We prove that the KdV soliton with subcritical speed $0<c<c^*$ is orbitally stable under the global KP-I flow constructed by Ionescu and Kenig \cite{IK}. For supercritical speeds $c>c^*$, in the spirit of the work by Duyckaerts and Merle \cite{DM}, we sharpen our previous instability result and construct a global solution which is different from the solitary wave and its translates and which converges to the solitary wave as time goes to infinity. This last result also holds for the gKP-I equation

Quasineutral limit for Vlasov-Poisson with Penrose stable data

We study the quasineutral limit of a Vlasov-Poisson system that describes the dynamics of ions in a plasma. We handle data with Sobolev regularity under the sharp assumption that the profile of the initial data in the velocity variable satisfies a Penrose stability condition. As a by-product of our analysis, we obtain a well-posedness theory for the limit equation (which is a Vlasov equation with Dirac distribution as interaction kernel) for such data

Landau damping in Sobolev spaces for the Vlasov-HMF model

International audienceWe consider the Vlasov-HMF (Hamiltonian Mean-Field) model. We consider solutions starting in a small Sobolev neighborhood of a spatially homogeneous state satisfying a linearized stability criterion (Penrose criterion). We prove that these solutions exhibit a scattering behavior to a modified state, which implies a nonlinear Landau damping effect with polynomial rate of damping

The KdV/KP-I Limit of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

International audienceWe justify rigorously the convergence of the amplitude of solutions of nonlinear Schrödinger-type equations with nonzero limit at infinity to an asymptotic regime governed by the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in dimension 1 and the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili I (KP-I) equation in dimensions 2 and greater. We get two types of results. In the one-dimensional case, we prove directly by energy bounds that there is no vortex formation for the global solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the energy space and deduce from this the convergence toward the unique solution in the energy space of the KdV equation. In arbitrary dimensions, we use a hydrodynamic reformulation of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and recast the problem as a singular limit for a hyperbolic system. We thus prove that smooth H^s solutions exist on a time interval independent of the small parameter. We then pass to the limit by a compactness argument and obtain the KdV/KP-I equation