Stability of large periodic solutions of Klein-Gordon near a homoclinic orbit

Abstract

We consider a Klein-Gordon equation (KG) on a Riemannian compact surface, for which the flow lets invariant the two dimensional space the solutions independent of the space variable. It turns out that in this invariant space, there is a homoclinic orbit to the origin, and a family of periodic solutions inside the loops of the homoclinic orbit. In this paper we study the stability of these periodic orbits under the (KG) flow, i.e. when turning on the nonlinear interaction with the non stationary modes. By a shadowing method, we prove that around the periodic orbits, solutions stay close to them during a time of order $(\log a)^2$, where $a$ is the distance between the periodic orbit considered and the homoclinic orbit.