Rigorous Justification of the Whitham Modulation Equations for the Generalized Korteweg-de Vries Equation

DOI10.1111/j.1467-9590.2010.00482.xzbMath1196.35184arXiv0910.1617OpenAlexW2132147886MaRDI QIDQ3576864

Mathew A. Johnson, Kevin Zumbrun

Publication date: 3 August 2010

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1617

zbMATH Keywords

WKB approximationKorteweg-de Vries equationspectral stability \(S\)Witham modulation equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Traveling wave solutions (35C07)

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