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A simple criterion of transverse linear instability for solitary waves

Analysis of PDEs 2010-01-26 v2 Spectral Theory

Abstract

We prove an abstract instability result for an eigenvalue problem with parameter. We apply this criterion to show the transverse linear instability of solitary waves on various examples from mathematical physics.

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@article{arxiv.0910.3789,
  title  = {A simple criterion of transverse linear instability for solitary waves},
  author = {F. Rousset and N. Tzvetkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3789},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

The main result has been improved and its proof simplified