On the neighborhood of an inhomogeneous stable stationary solution of the Vlasov equation - Case of the Hamiltonian mean-field model

Abstract

We consider the one-dimensional Vlasov equation with an attractive cosine potential, and its non homogeneous stationary states that are decreasing functions of the energy. We show that in the Sobolev space $W^{1,p}$ ($p>2$) neighborhood of such a state, all stationary states that are decreasing functions of the energy are stable. This is in sharp contrast with the situation for homogeneous stationary states of a Vlasov equation, where a control over strictly more than one derivative is needed to ensure the absence of unstable stationary states in a neighborhood of a reference stationary state [Z.Lin and C.Zeng, Comm.Math.Phys. {\bf 306}, 291-331 (2011)].