Asymptotic stability of traveling wave solutions for perturbations with algebraic decay. (Q1864638)

The paper deals with the generalized Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation \[ u_t + \beta u_{xxx} - \alpha u_{xx} + g(u)_x=0 \] including convection, diffusion and dispersion, for which the author investigates the stability of the traveling waves. After proving general interpolation results for linearized problems, the author obtains sharp decay results showing that when the initial perturbation of the wave profile decays at an algebraic rate, the solution converges to a shifted wave profile at a corresponding temporal algebraic rate.