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

DOI10.1111/j.1467-9590.2010.00482.xzbMath1196.35184arXiv0910.1617MaRDI 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 approximation; Korteweg-de Vries equation; spectral stability \(S\); Witham modulation equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B35: Stability in context of PDEs

35Q53: KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations)

81Q20: Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory

35C07: Traveling wave solutions

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