Instability of Solitons in the 2d Cubic Zakharov-Kuznetsov Equation

DOI10.1007/978-1-4939-9806-7_6zbMATH Open1440.35267arXiv1711.05907OpenAlexW2964084916MaRDI QIDQ5115058FDOQ5115058

Luiz G. Farah, Svetlana Roudenko, Justin Holmer

Publication date: 29 June 2020

Published in: Nonlinear Dispersive Partial Differential Equations and Inverse Scattering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the two dimensional generalization of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, the generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) equation, $u_t+partia{l}_{x_1}(Deltau+u^p)=0,(x_1,x_2)inmathbb{R}^2$. It is known that solitons are stable for nonlinearities $p<3$ and unstable for $p>3$, which was established by Anne de Bouard in [5] generalizing the arguments of Bona-Souganidis-Strauss in [1] for the gKdV equation. The $L^2$-critical case with $p=3$ has been open and in this paper we prove that solitons are unstable in the cubic ZK equation. This matches the situation with the critical gKdV equation, proved in 2001 by Martel and Merle in [22]. While the general strategy follows [22], the two dimensional case creates several difficulties and to deal with them, we design a new virial-type quantity, revisit monotonicity properties and, most importantly, develop new pointwise decay estimates, which can be useful in other contexts.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05907

zbMATH Keywords

solitonsZakharov-Kuznetsov equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stability problems for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K45) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25)

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