Turbulent cascades for a family of damped Szeg\"o equations

Abstract

In this paper, we study the transfer of energy from low to high frequencies for a family of damped Szeg\"o equations. The cubic Szeg\"o equation has been introduced as a toy model for a totally non-dispersive degenerate Hamiltonian equation. It is a completely integrable system which develops growth of high Sobolev norms, detecting transfer of energy and hence cascades phenomena. Here, we consider a two-parameter family of variants of the cubic Szeg\"o equation and prove that adding a damping term unexpectedly promotes the existence of turbulent cascades. Furthermore, we give a panorama of the dynamics for such equations on a six-dimensional submanifold.