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Stable directions for small nonlinear Dirac standing waves. (English) Zbl 1127.35060

Summary: We prove that for a Dirac operator, with no resonance at thresholds nor eigenvalue at thresholds, the propagator satisfies propagation and dispersive estimates. When this linear operator has only two simple eigenvalues sufficiently close to each other, we study an associated class of nonlinear Dirac equations which have stationary solutions. As an application of our decay estimates, we show that these solutions have stable directions which are tangent to the subspaces associated with the continuous spectrum of the Dirac operator. This result is the analogue, in the Dirac case, of a theorem by Tsai and Yau about the Schrödinger equation.

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35Q55 NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations)
37K45 Stability problems for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems
81Q05 Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics
35P25 Scattering theory for PDEs
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