We determine the sharp mass threshold for Sobolev norm growth for the
focusing continuum Calogero–Moser model. It is known that below the mass
of
,
solutions to this completely integrable model enjoy uniform-in-time
bounds for all
. In contrast, we show that
for arbitrarily small
there
exists initial data
of mass
such that the corresponding
maximal lifespan solution
satisfies
for all
.
As part of our proof, we demonstrate an orbital stability statement for the
soliton and a dispersive decay bound for solutions with suitable initial data.