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In this paper we study the Benjamin-Ono equation on the torus T := R/2πZ,
∂ u = ∂ ∂ u u2 , (1) t x | x| − T R β β−1 R where u u(x, t), x , t , is real valued and ∂x : Hc Hc , β , is the Fourier≡ multiplier∈ ∈ | | → ∈
inx inx ∂x : v(n)e n v(n)e | | Z 7→ Z | | nX∈ nX∈ Z b b β β β T C where v(n), n , are the Fourier coefficients of v Hc and Hc H ( , ) is the Sobolev space∈ of complex valued distributions on∈ the torus T.≡ The equation (1) wasb introduced in 1967 by Benjamin [1] and Davis & Acrivos [5] as a model for a special regime of internal gravity waves at the interface of two fluids. It is well known that (1) admits a Lax pair representation (cf. [19]) that leads to an infinite sequence of conserved quantities (cf. [19], [4]) and that it can be written in Hamiltonian form with Hamiltonian 2π 1 1 2 1 (u) := ∂ 1/2u u3 dx (2) H 2π 2 | x| − 3 Z0 by the use of the Gardner bracket
1 2π F, G (u) := ∂ F G dx (3) { } 2π x∇u ∇u Z0 2 1 s R s where uF and uG are the L -gradients of F, G C (Hr , ) at u Hr where s ∇s T R ∇ ∈ ∈T Hr H ( , ) is the Sobolev space of real valued distributions on . By the ≡ 1/2 3 Sobolev embedding Hr ֒ L (T, R), the Hamiltonian (2) is well defined and 1/2 → real analytic on Hr , the energy space of (1). The problem of the existence and the uniqueness of the solutions of the Benjamin-Ono equation is well studied – see [7], [21] and references therein. We refer to [21] for an excellent survey and a derivation of (1). By using the Hamiltonian formalism for (1), it was recently proven in [6, 7] that for any s> 1/2, the Benjamin-Ono equation has a Birkhoff map − 1 +s Φ: Hs h 2 , u (Φ (u)) , (Φ (u)) , (4) r,0 → r,0 7→ −n n≤−1 n n≥1 where Hβ := Hβ Hβ , Hβ := u Hβ u(0) = 0 , r,0 r ∩ c,0 c,0 ∈ c and hβ := z hβ z = z n 1b (5) r,0 ∈ c,0 −n n ∀ ≥ is a real subspace in the complex Hilbert space
β 2β 2 h := (z ) Z z = 0 and n z < , n := max 1, n . (6) c,0 n n∈ 0 h i | n| ∞ h i { | |} n∈Z X
2 By [6, Theorem 1] and [7, Theorem 6], the Birkhoff map (4) is a homeomorphism that transforms the trajectories of the Benjamin-Ono equation (1) into straight lines, which are winding around the underlying invariant torus, defined by the action variables. Furthermore, these trajectories evolve on the isospectral sets of potentials of the corresponding Lax operator (see (15) below). In this sense, the Birkhoff map can be considered as a non-linear Fourier transform that sig- nificantly simplifies the construction of solutions of (1). This fact allows us to 0 s prove that for any 1/2
∞ ∞ ∞ 2 Φ−1(z)= n2I I , (7) H◦ n − k n=1 n=1 X X kX=n where I (z) := z 2/2 are action variables for any n 1 (cf. (5)). In addition, n | n| ≥ by [6, Corollary 7.1], the Birkhoff coordinate functions ζn(u) Φn(u), n 1, satisfy the (well defined) canonical relations ≡ ≥
ζ , ζ =0, ζ , ζ = iδ , n,m 1, (8) { n m} { n m} − nm ∀ ≥ s with respect to the Gardner bracket (3) on Hr,0 for s 0. In the present paper we prove that for any s > ≥1/2 the Benjamin-Ono equation admits an analytic Birkhoff normal form in− an open neighborhood s of zero in Hr,0 (see Theorem 1.1 below). Let us first recall the notion of an analytic Birkhoff normal form in the case of a Hamiltonian system on R2N with coordinates (x1,y1, ..., xN ,yN ) and canonical symplectic structure Ω = N n=1 dxn dyn. Assume that the Hamiltonian H H(x, y) is real analytic and ∧ ≡ P N x2 + y2 H(x, y)= ω n n + O(r3), r := x 2 + y 2, (9) n 2 | | | | n=1 X p where O(r3) stands for terms of order 3 in the Taylor expansion of H at zero ≥ and ωn R, 1 n N. Note that then the Hamiltonian vector field XH of ∈ ≤ ≤ 2N 2N H has a singular point at zero and its linearization d0XH : T0R T0R at zero has imaginary eigenvalues, Spec d X = iω , ..., iω . By→ definition, 0 H {± 1 ± N } the Hamiltonian system corresponding to XH has an analytic Birkhoff normal form in an open neighborhood of zero if there exist open neighborhoods U and V of zero in R2N and a real analytic canonical diffeomorphism
: U V, (x ,y , ..., x ,y ) (q ,p , ..., q ,p ), F → 1 1 N N 7→ 1 1 N N
3 such that the Hamiltonian H −1 : V R has the form ◦F → p2 + q2 H −1(q ,p , ...q ,p )= (I , ..., I ) I := n n , 1 n N. ◦F 1 1 N N H 1 N n 2 ≤ ≤
In this case, the quantities I1,...,IN are Poisson commuting integrals and the Hamiltonian equations can be easily solved in terms of explicit formulas. A classical theorem of Birkhoff [3] states that in the case when the coefficients ω1, ..., ωN in (9) are rationally independent then : U V can be constructed in terms of a formal power series. However, this formalF → power series generically diverges because of small denominators. In the case when the Hamiltonian sys- tem is completely integrable in an open neighborhood of zero and the integrals satisfy a non-degeneracy condition at zero, then the Hamiltonian system ad- mits an analytic Birkhoff normal form (Vey [22]). Vey’s result was subsequently improved – see [23] and the references therein. We remark that typically, the Hamiltonians of infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems appearing in applica- tions such as the Benjamin-Ono equation, the Korteweg-de Vries equation, or the NLS equation, are only defined on a continuously embedded proper subspace of the corresponding phase space. The following theorem can be considered as an instance of a Hamiltonian system of infinite dimension that admits an ana- lytic Birkhoff normal form in an open neighborhood of zero. Theorem 1.1. For any s> 1/2 there exists an open neighborhood U U s of s − ≡ zero in Hc,0 such that the Birkhoff map of the Benjamin-Ono equation
1 +s Φ: Hs h 2 , (10) r,0 → r,0 1 2 +s introduced in [6, 7], extends to an analytic map Φ: U hc,0 . The restriction 1 +s → s h 2 Φ U∩Hs : U Hr,0 r,0 is a real analytic diffeomorphism onto its image. r,0 ∩ → In particular, in view of (7) and (8), for s> 1/2 the Benjamin-Ono equation − s (1) has an analytic Birkhoff normal form in the open neighborhood U Hr,0 of s −1 ∩ zero in Hr,0 such that the Hamiltonian H Φ given by (7) is well defined and 1 ◦ real analytic on hr,0. Remark 1.1. Since, prior to this work, the Benjamin-Ono equation was not known to be integrable in terms of an appropriate infinite dimensional real an- alytic setup, Theorem 1.1 should not be viewed as an instance of Vey’s result for the infinite dimensional Hamiltonian system (1). For the same reason, the techniques developed by Kuksin &Perelman in [16] do not apply in this case. We apply Theorem 1.1 to further analyze regularity properties of the solution s map of the Benjamin-Ono equation. Assume that s > 1/2. For u0 Hr,0, denote by t u(t) u(t,u ) the solution of the Benjamin-Ono− equation∈ (1) 7→ ≡ 0 with initial data u0, constructed in [7]. For given t R and T > 0 consider the flow map ∈ t : Hs Hs , u u(t,u ), S0 r,0 → r,0 0 7→ 0
4 as well as the solution map
: Hs C [ T,T ],Hs , u u , S0,T r,0 → − r,0 0 7→ |[−T,T ] of the Benjamin-Ono equation. To state our results, we need to introduce one more definition. A continuous map F : X Y between two Banach spaces X and Y is called nowhere locally uniformly continuous→ in an open neighborhood
U in X if the restriction F V : V Y of F to any open neighborhood V U is not uniformly continuous. In a similar→ way one defines the notion of a nowhere⊆ locally Lipschitz map in an open neighborhood U X. ⊆ t Theorem 1.2. (i) For any 1/2 0, the solution map 0,T : U Hr,0 C [ T,T ],Hr,0 is real analytic. S ∩ → − Addendum to Theorem 1.2(ii). For any k 1, s> 1/2+2k, and T > 0, the solution map ≥ −
k : Hs Cj [ T,T ],Hs−2j S0,T r,0 → − r,0 j=0 \ s is well defined and real analytic in an open neighborhood of zero in Hr,0. Remark 1.2. Item (i) of Theorem 1.2 improves on the result by Molinet in [17, R t Theorem 1.2], saying that for any s< 0, t , the flow map 0 (if it exists at all) is not of class C1,α for any α > 0. Item∈ (ii) of TheoremS1.2 improves on R t the result by Molinet, saying that for any s 0, t , the flow map 0 is real analytic near zero ([17, Theorem 1.2]). ≥ ∈ S
s Remark 1.3. Any solution u of the Benjamin-Ono equation in Hr,0, s> 1/2, constructed in [7], has the property that for any c R, u(t, x 2ct)+ c is− again a solution with constant mean value c. It is straightforward∈ to− see that for any c R, Theorem 1.2 holds on the affine space u Hs u(0) = c . ∈ ∈ r Remark 1.4. Note that in Theorem 1.2 we restrict our attention to solutions with mean value zero. In case when the mean value of solutionsb is not prescribed, s the flow map is no longer locally uniformly continuous on Hr with s 0 as can be seen by considering families of solutions c+u(t, x 2ct) of the Benjamin-Ono≥ equation, parametrized by c R, where c tends to zero− and u is oscillating. 1 Based on this observation, Koch∈ &Tzvetkov succeeded in proving that the solu- tion map of the Benjamin-Ono equation on the line is not uniformly continuous
1This fact can also be proved in a very transparent way using Birkhoff coordinates (cf. [13, Appendix A]).
5 on bounded subsets of initial data in Hs(R, R) with s > 0 (cf. [14]). We point out that Theorem 1.2(i) does not follow from the lack of uniform continuity on bounded subsets of initial data of the solution map of the Benjamin-Ono equa- s tion on Hr , s > 1/2, and its proof requires new arguments. We remark that the Birkhoff coordinates− allow to explain in clear terms why on any neighbor- s hood of zero in Hr,0 with 1/2
1 +s Ideas of the proofs. The Birkhoff map Φ : Hs h 2 , u (Φ (u)) , is r,0 → r,0 7→ n |n|≥1 defined in terms of the Lax operator Lu = i∂x Tu where Tu denotes the s − − Toeplitz operator with potential u Hr,0, s> 1/2. We refer to Section 2 for a review of terminology and results∈ concerning− this operator, established in the previous papers [6], [7], and [8]. At this point we only mention that the spectrum of Lu is discrete and consists of a sequence of simple, real eigenvalues, bounded from below, λ (u) < λ (u) < . Furthermore, there exist L2 normalized 0 1 ··· − eigenfunctions fn(u) of Lu, corresponding to the eigenvalues λn(u), which are uniquely determined by the normalization conditions
f (u) 1 > 0, eixf (u) f (u) > 0, n 1. (11) h 0 | i h n−1 | n i ∀ ≥ The components of the Birkhoff map Φ are then defined as
1 fn(u) Φn(u)= h | i, n 1, (12) + κn(u) ∀ ≥ where κn(u) > 0 are scaling factorsp (cf. Section 4). We point out that the normalization conditions (11) are defined inductively. It is this fact which makes it more difficult to prove that Φ extends to an analytic map. For u = 0, one has
λ (0) = n, f (0) = einx, κ (0) = 1, n 0. n n n ∀ ≥ We then use perturbation arguments to show that for any s> 1/2, Φ extends s − to an analytic map on a neighborhood of zero in Hc,0. Let us outline the main steps of the proof of this result. In [8] we proved that there exists a neighborhood U U s of zero in Hs ≡ c,0 so that for any u U, the spectrum of Lu consists of simple eigenvalues λn(u), n 0. These eigenvalues∈ are analytic maps on U and so are the Riesz projectors ≥ Pn(u) onto the one dimensional eigenspaces, corresponding to these eigenvalues. See Proposition 2.1 and Proposition 2.2 in Section 2 for a review of these results. inx It then follows that for any n 0, hn(u) = Pn(u)e is an analytic function U H1+s (see (13) below). ≥ → +
6 In Section 3 we introduce the pre-Birkhoff map
Ψ(u)=(Ψ (u)) , Ψ (u)= h (u) 1 , n 1. n n≥1 n h n | i ∀ ≥
With the help of the Taylor expansion of Pn(u), n 1, we show that for any 1+s 1+s ≥ u U, Ψ(u) h+ and that Ψ : U h+ is analytic (see (14) below). The arguments∈ developed∈ allow to prove that→ these results hold for any s > 1/2, not just for 1/2 1/2, the Birkhoff map Φ : Hr,0 hr,0 is a real analytic diffeomorphism. The− proof of this result uses, in broad→ terms, the same strategy developed to prove Theorem 1.1, but it is more technical, relying on the approximation of s arbitrary elements in Hr,0 by finite gap potentials and on properties of the spectrum of the Lax operator, associated to such potentials. As in the proof of Theorem 1.1, one of the main ingredients of the proof of the analytic extension is Lemma 5.1 (Vanishing Lemma) of Section 5. 1 s 2 +s The result saying that the Birkhoff map Φ : Hr,0 hr,0 is a real analytic diffeomorphism for the appropriate range of s, shows→ that similarly as for the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation (cf. [11], [13]) and the defocusing nonlinear Schr¨odinger (NLS) equation (cf. [10]), the Benjamin-Ono equation on the torus is integrable in the strongest possible sense. We point out that the proof of the analyticity of the Birkhoff map in the case of the Benjamin-Ono equation significantly differs from the one in the case of the KdV and NLS equations due to the fact the Benjamin-Ono equation is not a differential equation. The above result on the Birkhoff map Φ can be applied to prove in a straight- s forward way that Theorem 1.2 extends to all of Hr,0. We remark that a result of this type has been first proved for the KdV equation in [12, Theorem 3.10]. It turns out that the analysis of the solution map of the KdV equation, expressed in Birkhoff coordinates, can also be used to prove Theorem 1.2 and its extension. Similarly as in the case of the KdV equation (cf. [11], [15]) and the NLS equation (cf. [2] and references therein), a major application of the result, saying 1 s 2 +s that Φ : Hr,0 hr,0 is a real analytic diffeomorphism for any s > 1/2, concerns its use→ to study (Hamiltonian) perturbations of the Benjamin-Ono− equation by KAM methods near finite gap solutions of arbitrary large amplitude. Notation. In this paragraph we summarize the most frequently used notations in the paper. For any β R, Hβ denotes the Sobolev space Hβ T, C of complex ∈ c 7 valued functions on the torus T = R/2πZ with regularity exponent β. The norm β in Hc is given by 1/2 2β 2 u β := n u(n) k k Zh i | | nX∈ Z β where u(n), n , are the Fourier coefficientsb of u Hc . For β = 0 and 0 2 ∈T C β ∈ u Hc L ( , ) we set u u 0. By Hc,0 we denote the complex ∈ ≡ β k k≡k k subspaceb in Hc of functions with mean value zero, Hβ = u Hβ u(0) = 0 . c,0 ∈ c For f Hβ and g H−β, define the sesquilinear and bilinear pairing, ∈ c ∈ c b f g := f(n)g(n), f,g := f(n)g( n). h | i Z h i Z − nX∈ nX∈ b β b b b The positive Hardy space H with regularity exponent β R is defined as + ∈ Hβ := f Hs f(n)=0 n< 0 . (13) + ∈ c ∀ p p Z C For 1 p< denote by ℓ+ ℓ ≥1 ,b the Banach space of complex valued sequences≤ z =∞ (z ) with finite≡ norm n n≥1 1/p p z ℓp := zn < . k k + | | ∞ nX≥1 Similarly, denote by ℓ∞ ℓ∞ Z , C the Banach space of complex valued + ≡ ≥1 ∞ sequences with finite supremum norm z ℓ+ := supn≥1 zn . More generally, for 1 p and m Z, we introduce thekk Banach space | | ≤ ≤ ∞ ∈ ℓp ℓp Z , C , Z := n Z n m , ≥m ≡ ≥m ≥m { ∈ | ≥ } as well as the space ℓp ℓp Z, C , defined in a similar way. Furthermore, denote c ≡ by hβ , β R, the Hilbert space of complex valued sequences z = (z ) with + ∈ n n≥1 1/2 2β 2 z hβ := n zn < . (14) k k + | | | | ∞ nX≥1 β In a similar way, we define the space of complex valued sequences h≥m for any m Z and β R. Finally, for z C ( , 0], we denote by √+ z the principal ∈ ∈ ∈ \ −∞ branch of the square root of z, defined by Re √+ z > 0. 2 The Lax Operator
In this section we review results from [8] on the Lax operator Lu of the Benjamin- s Ono equation with potentials u in Hc with s > 1/2, used in this paper. Throughout this section we assume that 1/2
8 For u Hs with 1/2 0 consider the sets in C,
Vert (̺) := λ C λ n ̺, Re(λ) n 1/2 , n 0, (16) n ∈ | − |≥ | − |≤ ≥ Dn(̺) := λ C λ n <̺ , n 0, (17) ∈ | − | ≥ and let ∂Dn(̺) be the counterclockwise oriented boundary of Dn(̺) in C. De- 0 C note by Vertn(̺) the interior of Vertn(̺) in . Proposition 2.2. For any 1/2 < s 0, there exists an open neighborhood s s − ≤ U U of zero in Hc,0 so that for any u U the operator Lu is a closed ≡ s 1+s ∈ operator in H+ with domain H+ . The operator has a compact resolvent and all its eigenvalues are simple. When listed appropriately, they satisfy
λ D (1/4), n 0. n ∈ n ≥
9 Moreover, for any n 0 the resolvent map ≥ U Vert0 (1/4) Hs ,H1+s , (u, λ) (L λ)−1, × n → L + + 7→ u − −1 −1 −1 −1 is analytic. In addition, (Lu λ) = (D λ) I Tu(D λ) and for any n 0, the Neumann series− − − − ≥ −1 I T (D λ)−1 = [T (D λ)−1]m (18) − u − u − m≥0 X converges in Hs absolutely and uniformly for (u, λ) U Vert0 (1/4). L + ∈ × n Remark 2.1. By [8, Corollary 2] the neighborhood U in Proposition 2.2 can be chosen so that for any n 0, ≥ −1 Tu(D λ) L(Hs;n) < 1/2, (u, λ) U Vertn(1/4), − + ∀ ∈ × s; n s where H+ stands for the space H+ equipped with the equivalent “shifted” norm 2s 2 1/2 f s;n := k≥0 n k f(k) (cf. [8, Lemma 3]). In particular, for any kn k 0 the series inh (−18)i converges| | uniformly on U Vert (1/4) with respect to ≥ × n an operatorP norm which isb equivalent to the operator norm in Hs . L + s Remark 2.2. For any u Hr,0, 1/2