Asymptotic stability of sharp fronts: Analysis and rigorous computation

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Authors Blake Barker, Jared C. Bronski, Vera Mikyoung Hur, Zhao Yang

Published in arXiv

Has companion code repository https://github.com/nonlinear-waves/stablab_matlab/tree/master/KdVB

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35)

Abstract: We study the asymptotic stability of the traveling front solutions to nonlinear dispersive equations of Burgers type. Our main example is the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers (KdVB) equation although the result holds much more generally. Exploiting a modulation of the translation parameter and making an energy estimate we establish our stability criterion that a Schr"odinger equation in one dimension have exactly one negative eigenvalue so that a rank-one perturbation of the operator can be made positive semi-definite. Counting the number of bound states of the Schr"odinger equation in one dimension, we find a sufficient condition for stability in terms of Bargmann's integral, which can be interpreted as the distance between the monotonization of the front and a corresponding ideal shock. For the KdVB equation we analytically verify that our stability criterion is met in an open interval of the relative dispersion parameter which includes all monotone fronts. Numerical experiments suggest stability for a larger interval.

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