The modulational instability for a generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation
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DOI10.1007/S00205-009-0270-5zbMATH Open1221.35325arXiv0809.4402OpenAlexW3104918464WikidataQ107199747 ScholiaQ107199747MaRDI QIDQ993339FDOQ993339
Authors: Jared C. Bronski, Mathew A. Johnson 
Publication date: 10 September 2010
Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We study the spectral stability of a family of periodic standing wave solutions to the generalized KdV (g-KdV) in a neighborhood of the origin in the spectral plane using what amounts to a rigorous Whitham modulation theory calculation. In particular we are interested in understanding the role played by the null directions of the linearized operator in the stability of the traveling wave to perturbations of long wavelength. A study of the normal form of the characteristic polynomial of the monodromy map (the periodic Evan's function) in a neighborhood of the origin in the spectral plane leads to two different instability indices. The first index counts modulo 2 the total number of periodic eigenvalues on the real axis. This index is a generalization of the one which governs the stability of the solitary wave. The second index provides a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a long-wavelength instability. This index is essentially the quantity calculated by Haragus and Kapitula in the small amplitude limit. Both of these quantities can be expressed in terms of the map between the constants of integration for the ordinary differential equation defining the traveling waves and the conserved quantities of the partial differential equation. These two indices together provide a good deal of information about the spectrum of the linearized operator. We sketch the connection of this calculation to a study of the linearized operator - in particular we perform a perturbation calculation in terms of the Floquet parameter. This suggests geometric interpretations attached to the vanishing of the modulational instability index previously mentioned.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4402
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