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Instability of a class of dispersive solitary waves*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

P. E. Souganidis  and
W. A. Strauss
P. E. Souganidis
Affiliation:
Division of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, and Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems, Brown University, Providence, RI02912, U.S.A.
W. A. Strauss
Affiliation:
Division of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, and Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems, Brown University, Providence, RI02912, U.S.A.
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Synopsis

This paper studies the stability and instability properties of solitary wave solutions φ(x – ct) of a general class of evolution equations of the form Muttf(u)x=0, which support weakly nonlinear dispersive waves. It turns out that, depending on their speed c and the relation between the dispersion (i.e. the order of the pseudodifferential operator) and the nonlinearity, travelling waves maybe stable or unstable. Sharp conditions to that effect are given.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 114 , Issue 3-4 , 1990 , pp. 195 - 212
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1990

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