Hamiltonian dynamics of an elastica and the stability of solitary waves

DOI10.1007/BF02198477zbMath0861.73036MaRDI QIDQ2365376

John H. Maddocks, Robert L. Pego, Donald J. Dichmann

Publication date: 22 April 1997

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsnonlinear stabilitywave profilesnonisolated minimizerstime-invariant functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Vibrations in dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H45) Stability of dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H55) Hamilton's equations (70H05)

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