Nonlinear instability in a semiclassical problem

DOI10.1007/S00220-012-1598-5zbMATH Open1258.35026arXiv1109.0773OpenAlexW2107197421MaRDI QIDQ694977FDOQ694977

Authors: Jeffrey Galkowski 

Publication date: 20 December 2012

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a nonlinear evolution problem with an asymptotic parameter and construct examples in which the linearized operator has spectrum uniformly bounded away from Re z >= 0 (that is, the problem is spectrally stable), yet the nonlinear evolution blows up in short times for arbitrarily small initial data. We interpret the results in terms of semiclassical pseudospectrum of the linearized operator: despite having the spectrum in Re z < -c < 0, the resolvent of the linearized operator grows very quickly in parts of the region Re z > 0. We also illustrate the results numerically.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0773

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zbMATH Keywords

linearly stablenonlinearly unstablesemiclassical pseudospectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G25)

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• Eigtool

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