Stability of waves in perturbed Hamiltonian systems (Q5947026)

This paper deals with the effects of Hamiltonian perturbation of Hamiltonian systems, in which the perturbation destroys some of the symmetries of the original system. For such a system the author studies the existence and stability of waves. To this end the author uses both Lyapunov-Schmidt theory and the Evans function. The theoretical results are applied to systems describing the propagation of waves in weakly inhomogeneous media.