Nonlinear Instability of a Critical Traveling Wave in the Generalized Korteweg–de Vries Equation

DOI10.1137/060651501MaRDI QIDQ5444262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Scipio Cuccagna, Dmitry Pelinovsky, A. A. Komech

Publication date 25 February 2008

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609010

zbMATH Keywords

critical solitondynamic instabilityKorteweg-de Vries equationorbital stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Soliton equations (35Q51) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Stability problems for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K45)

Abstract: We prove the instability of a ``critical solitary wave of the generalized Korteweg -- de Vries equation, the one with the speed at the border between the stability and instability regions. The instability mechanism involved is ``purely nonlinear, in the sense that the linearization at a critical soliton does not have eigenvalues with positive real part. We prove that critical solitons correspond generally to the saddle-node bifurcation of two branches of solitons.

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