Stability of Hasimoto solitons in energy space for a fourth order nonlinear Schrödinger type equation (Q524539)

This paper deals with a fourth-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation and shows that the Hasimoto soliton is orbitally stable in the energy space \(H^2(\mathbb{R})\). To achieve this goal, the spectral properties of the corresponding linearized operator around the Hasimoto soliton are studied and a Lyapunov functional at the \(H^2\) level is introduced.