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Small-amplitude finite-depth Stokes waves are transversally unstable

Analysis of PDEs 2025-07-31 v2

Abstract

We prove that all irrotational planar periodic traveling waves of sufficiently small-amplitude are spectrally unstable as solutions to three-dimensional inviscid finite-depth gravity water-waves equations.

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@article{arxiv.2409.01663,
  title  = {Small-amplitude finite-depth Stokes waves are transversally unstable},
  author = {Ziang Jiao and L. Miguel Rodrigues and Changzhen Sun and Zhao Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.01663},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Slighted extended revised version, 32 pages, 2 figures