Counting unstable eigenvalues in Hamiltonian spectral problems via commuting operators

DOI10.1007/S00220-017-2898-6MaRDI QIDQ6277585arXivFDO

Authors Mariana Haragus, Jin Li, Dmitry Pelinovsky

Publication date 16 September 2016

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00220-017-2898-6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations (35-XX) Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX) Operator theory (47-XX)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.APmath.DSmath.MPnlin.PSnlin.SI

Abstract: We present a general counting result for the unstable eigenvalues of linear operators of the form $JL$ in which $J$ and $L$ are skew- and self-adjoint operators, respectively. Assuming that there exists a self-adjoint operator $K$ such that the operators $JL$ and $JK$ commute, we prove that the number of unstable eigenvalues of $JL$ is bounded by the number of nonpositive eigenvalues of~$K$. As an application, we discuss the transverse stability of one-dimensional periodic traveling waves in the classical KP-II (Kadomtsev--Petviashvili) equation. We show that these one-dimensional periodic waves are transversely spectrally stable with respect to general two-dimensional bounded perturbations, including periodic and localized perturbations in either the longitudinal or the transverse direction, and that they are transversely linearly stable with respect to doubly periodic perturbations.

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