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Nonlinear stability of Gardner breathers

Analysis of PDEs 2017-09-26 v3

Abstract

We show that breather solutions of the Gardner equation, a natural generalization of the KdV and mKdV equations, are H2(R)H^2(\mathbb{R}) stable. Through a variational approach, we characterize Gardner breathers as minimizers of a new Lyapunov functional and we study the associated spectral problem, through (i)(i) the analysis of the spectrum of explicit linear systems (\emph{spectral stability}), and (ii)(ii) controlling degenerated directions by using low regularity conservation laws.

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@article{arxiv.1705.04206,
  title  = {Nonlinear stability of Gardner breathers},
  author = {Miguel A. Alejo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.04206},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

This is v2. Improved with a complete stability result on the existence interval of the parameter $\mu\in(0,\mu_{max})$. 29 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1206.3157

R2 v1 2026-06-22T19:44:11.859Z