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On the nonlinear stability of mKdV breathers

Analysis of PDEs 2015-06-05 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A mathematical proof for the stability of mKdV breathers is announced. This proof involves the existence of a nonlinear equation satisfied by all breather profiles, and a new Lyapunov functional which controls the dynamics of small perturbations and instability modes. In order to construct such a functional, we work in a subspace of the energy one. However, our proof introduces new ideas in order to attack the corresponding stability problem in the energy space. Some remarks about the sine-Gordon case are also considered.

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@article{arxiv.1206.3151,
  title  = {On the nonlinear stability of mKdV breathers},
  author = {Miguel Angel Alejo and Claudio Muñoz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.3151},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pp

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