On stability of solitons for 3D Maxwell-Lorentz equations with spinning particle

Abstract

We consider stability of solitons of 3D Maxwell--Lorentz system with extended charged spinning particle.The solitons are solutions which correspond to a particle moving with a constant velocity $v\in\R^3$ with $|v|<1$ and rotating with a constant angular velocity $\omega\in R^3$. Our main results are the orbital stability of moving solitons with $\omega=0$ and a {\it linear} orbital stability of rotating solitons with $v=0$. The Hamilton--Poisson structure of the Maxwell--Lorentz system is degenerate and admits the Casimir invariants. We construct the Lyapunov function as a linear combination of the Hamiltonian with a suitable Casimir invariant. The key point is a lower bound for this function. The proof of the bound in the case $\om\ne 0$ relies on angular momentum conservation and suitable spectral arguments including the Heinz inequality and closed graph theorem.