Dispersive equations and wave turbulence theory

24 September - 17 December 2024

Tuesdays, 10:15 - 12:00

Location: HG G 43 (exception: 24 Sept. in HG G 19.2)

First lecture: 24 September

No lecture on 1 October

Abstract

In this course we will investigate questions of weak turbulence theory by using as explicit example of wave interactions the solutions to periodic and nonlinear Schrödinger equations. We will start with Strichartz estimates on periodic setting, then we will move to well-posedness.

We will then present two different ways of introducing the evolution of the energy spectrum. We will first work on a method proposed by Bourgain and involving the growth of high Sobolev norms. Then, we will give some ideas of how to derive rigorously the effective dynamics of the energy spectrum itself (wave kinetic equation), when one considers weakly nonlinear dispersive equations.