We construct infinitely many real-valued, time-periodic breather solutions of power-type nonlinear wave equations. These are obtained from critical points a dual functional and they weakly localized in space. Our abstract framework allows to find similar existence results for the Klein-Gordon equation or biharmonic

We study the scattering theory for charged Klein-Gordon equations:  (∂t − iv(x))2φ(t, x) + (x,Dx)φ(t, x) = 0, φ(0, x) = f0, i−1∂tφ(0, x) = f1, where: (x,Dx) = − ∑ 1≤j,k≤n ( ∂xj − ibj(x) ) a(x) (∂xk − ibk(x)) +m (x), describing a Klein-Gordon field minimally coupled to an external electromagnetic field described by the electric potential v(x) and magnetic potential ~b(x). The flow of the Kle...

We develop a general theory to treat the linear stability of certain special solutions of second order in time evolutionary PDEs. We apply these results to standing waves of the following problems: the Klein-Gordon equation, for which we consider both ground states and certain excited states, the Klein-Gordon-Zakharov system and the beam equation. We also discuss possible applications to some n...

We give an explicit construction of a positive-definite invariant inner-product for the Klein-Gordon fields, thus solving the old problem of the probability interpretation of Klein-Gordon fields without having to restrict to the subspaces of the positivefrequency solutions. Our method has a much wider domain of application and enjoys a remarkable uniqueness property. We explore its consequences...

We give an explicit construction of a positive-definite invariant inner-product for the Klein-Gordon fields, thus solving the old problem of the probability interpretation of Klein-Gordon fields without having to restrict to the subspaces of the positive-frequency solutions. Our method has a much wider domain of application and enjoys a remarkable uniqueness property. We explore its consequence...

It is proved that no Hamiltonian exists for the real Klein-Gordon field used in the Yukawa interaction. It is also shown that a real Klein-Gordon particle can be neither in a free isolated state nor in a bound state having an angular momentum l > 0. The experimental data support these conclusions. This outcome is in a complete agreement with Dirac's negative opinion on the Klein-Gordon equation.

Two coupled nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations modeling the three-dimensional dynamics of a twisted elastic rod near its first bifurcation threshold are analyzed. First, it is shown that these equations are Hamiltonian and that they admit a 2-parameter family of traveling wave solutions. Second, special solutions corresponding to simple deformations of the elastic rod are considered. The stabilit...

We prove that a free relativistic rotor (or rotator) Klein-Gordon field is massless. To this end, the magnitude of the centrifugal force and its associated quantum operator for a free particle with a circular motion are determined in Special Relativity. A partial differential equation including the centrifugal force operator is derived. Finally, from the conjunction of the above equation and th...

The method of multiscale analysis is constructed for dicrete systems of evolution equations for which the problem is that of the far behavior of an input boundary datum. Discrete slow space variables are introduced in a general setting and the related finite differences are constructed. The method is applied to a series of representative examples: the Toda lattice, the nonlinear Klein-Gordon ch...

We show scattering versus blow-up dichotomy below the ground state energy for the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation, in the spirit of KenigMerle for the H critical wave and Schrödinger equations. Our result includes the H critical case, where the threshold is given by the ground state for the massless equation, and the 2D square-exponential case, where the mass for the ground state may b...