On the spectral and modulational stability of periodic wavetrains for nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations

DOI10.1007/S00574-016-0159-5zbMath1356.35038OpenAlexW2472647891MaRDI QIDQ504586

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

Publication date: 17 January 2017

Published in: Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00574-016-0159-5

zbMATH Keywords

modulation theoryFloquet spectrumsubluminal and superluminal propagation velocities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70) 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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