Real Lax spectrum implies spectral stability

DOI10.1111/SAPM.12335MaRDI QIDQ5141895zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeremy Upsal, Bernard Deconinck

Publication date 22 December 2020

Published in Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10119

zbMATH Keywords

integrable systemssolitonsstability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Stability problems for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K45)

Abstract: We consider the dynamical stability of periodic solutions of integrable equations with 2x2 Lax pairs. We construct the eigenfunctions and hence the Floquet discriminant for such Lax pairs. The boundedness of the eigenfunctions determines the Lax spectrum. We use a connection between the Lax spectrum and the stability spectrum to show that the subset of the real line which gives rise to stable eigenvalues is contained in the Lax spectrum. This subset is the full spectrum for self-adjoint members of the AKNS hierarchy. For non-self-adjoint members of the AKNS hierarchy admitting a common reduction, the real line is always part of the Lax spectrum and maps to stable eigenvalues of the stability problem. We demonstrate our methods work for a variety of examples.

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