Eigenvalues, and instabilities of solitary waves

DOI10.1098/rsta.1992.0055zbMath0776.35065OpenAlexW2062710542MaRDI QIDQ4697066

Robert L. Pego, Michael I. Weinstein

Publication date: 29 June 1993

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1992.0055

zbMATH Keywords

essential spectrumBoussinesq equationsBenjamin-Bona-MahoneyKorteweg-de Vriesinstability conditionEvans' analytic function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) General spectral theory of ordinary differential operators (34L05) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Soliton equations (35Q51) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30)

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