Spectral and modulational stability of periodic wavetrains for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2014.09.004zbMATH Open1304.35079arXiv1312.1132OpenAlexW2963058109MaRDI QIDQ462913FDOQ462913

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

Publication date: 22 October 2014

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is a detailed and self-contained study of the stability properties of periodic traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation $u_{tt}-u_{xx}+V^{\prime }(u)=0$, where $u$ is a scalar-valued function of $x$ and $t$, and the potential $V(u)$ is of class $C^2$ and periodic. Stability is considered both from the point of view of spectral analysis of the linearized problem (spectral stability analysis) and from the point of view of wave modulation theory (the strongly nonlinear theory due to Whitham as well as the weakly nonlinear theory of wave packets). The aim is to develop and present new spectral stability results for periodic traveling waves, and to make a solid connection between these results and predictions of the (formal) modulation theory, which has been developed by others but which we review for completeness.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1132

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear Klein-Gordon equationspectral stabilitymodulation theoryperiodic wavetrainsweakly nonlinear theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71) Stability problems for finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J25) Periodic and almost periodic solutions for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H12)

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