Long time stability of small-amplitude Breathers in a mixed FPU-KG model

Abstract

In the limit of small couplings in the nearest neighbor interaction, and small total energy, we apply the resonant normal form result of a previous paper of ours to a finite but arbitrarily large mixed Fermi–Pasta–Ulam Klein–Gordon chain, i.e., with both linear and nonlinear terms in both the on-site and interaction potential, with periodic boundary conditions. An existence and orbital stability result for Breathers of such a normal form, which turns out to be a generalized discrete nonlinear Schrodinger model with exponentially decaying all neighbor interactions, is first proved. Exploiting such a result as an intermediate step, a long time stability theorem for the true Breathers of the KG and FPU–KG models, in the anti-continuous limit, is proven.