On a damped Szego equation (with an appendix in collaboration with Christian Klein)

Abstract

We investigate how damping the lowest Fourier mode modifies the dynamics of the cubic Szeg{\"o} equation. We show that there is a nonempty open subset of initial data generating trajec-tories with high Sobolev norms tending to infinity. In addition, we give a complete picture of this phenomenon on a reduced phase space of dimension 6. An appendix is devoted to numerical simulations supporting the generalisation of this picture to more general initial data.