Stability and instability of small BGK waves
Analysis of PDEs
2026-02-18 v2
Abstract
The aim of this article is to prove that the linear stability or instability of small Bernstein-Green-Kruskal (BGK) waves is determined by the sign of the derivative of their energy distributions at energy.
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@article{arxiv.2601.10030,
title = {Stability and instability of small BGK waves},
author = {Dongfen Bian and Emmanuel Grenier and Wenrui Huang and Benoit Pausader},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.10030},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
87 pages, 5 figures; some improvements to presentation, references updated