Conditional stability of multi-solitons for the 1D NLKG equation with double power nonlinearity

Abstract

We consider the one-dimensional nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with a double power focusing-defocusing nonlinearity \begin{equation*} \partial_{t}^{2}u-\partial_{x}^{2}u+u-|u|^{p-1}u+|u|^{q-1}u=0,\quad \mbox{on}\ [0,\infty)\times \mathbb{R}, \end{equation*} with $1<q<p<\infty$. The main result states the stability in the energy space $H^{1}(\mathbb{R})\times L^{2}(\mathbb{R})$ of the sums of decoupled solitary waves with different speeds, up to the natural instabilities. The proof is inspired by the techniques developed for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation and the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in a similar context by Martel, Merle and Tsai [14,15]. However, the adaptation of this strategy to a wave-type equation requires the introduction of a new energy functional adapted to the Lorentz transform.