On the stability analysis of periodic sine-Gordon traveling waves

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2013.02.003zbMATH Open1278.35046arXiv1210.0659OpenAlexW1988758918WikidataQ57940484 ScholiaQ57940484MaRDI QIDQ387342FDOQ387342

Ramón G. Plaza, Peter D. Miller, Christopher K. R. T. Jones, Robert Marangell

Publication date: 23 December 2013

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the spectral stability properties of periodic traveling waves in the sine-Gordon equation, including waves of both subluminal and superluminal propagation velocities as well as waves of both librational and rotational types. We prove that only subluminal rotational waves are spectrally stable and establish exponential instability in the other three cases. Our proof corrects a frequently cited one given by Scott.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0659

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilityspectral analysispartial differential equationsnonlinear wavessine-Gordon equationperiodic traveling waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

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