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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.
We present a method to prove nonlinear instability of solitary waves in dispersive models. Two examples are analyzed: we prove the nonlinear long time instability of the KdV solitary wave (with respect to periodic transverse perturbations)…
We present a general result of transverse nonlinear instability of 1-d solitary waves for Hamiltonian PDE's for both periodic or localized transverse perturbations. Our main structural assumption is that the linear part of the 1d model and…
The Camassa-Holm-Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-I equation (CH-KP-I) is a two dimensional generalization of the Camassa-Holm equation (CH). In this paper, we prove transverse instability of the line solitary waves under periodic transverse…
We prove the nonlinear stability of the KdV solitary waves considered as solutions of the KP-II equation, with respect to periodic transverse perturbations.
We consider a fifth-order Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation which arises as a two-dimensional model in the classical water-wave problem. This equation possesses a family of generalized line solitary waves which decay exponentially to periodic…
We show that solitary waves for the 2D Euler-Korteweg model for capillary fluids display nonlinear instability when subjected to transverse perturbations.
We consider the propagation of smooth solitary waves in a two-dimensional generalization of the Camassa--Holm equation. We show that transverse perturbations to one-dimensional solitary waves behave similarly to the KP-II theory. This…
We consider the linearized instability of 2D irrotational solitary water waves. The maxima of energy and the travel speed of solitary waves are not obtained at the highest wave, which has a 120 degree angle at the crest. Under the…
In this paper, we establish the transverse linear asymptotic stability of one-dimensional small-amplitude solitary waves of the gravity water-waves system. More precisely, we show that the semigroup of the linearized operator about the…
The linear stability of rapid granular flow on a slope under gravity against the longitudinal perturbation is analyzed using hydrodynamic equations. It is demonstrated that the steady flow uniform along the flow direction becomes unstable…
In this paper we consider the transverse instability for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a linear potential on $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{T}_L$, where $2\pi L$ is the period of the torus $\mathbb{T}_L$. Rose and Weinstein showed the…
It is well known that the water-wave problem with weak surface tension has small-amplitude line solitary-wave solutions which to leading order are described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. The present paper contains an existence…
We study the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a competing cubic-quintic power law nonlinearity on the waveguide domain $\mathbb R_x \times \mathbb T_{L_y}$. This model is globally well-posed and admits line solitary wave solutions,…
Should it be a pebble hitting water surface or an explosion taking place underwater, concentric surface waves inevitably propagate. Except for possibly early times of the impact, finite amplitude concentric water waves emerge from a balance…
Linear stability of a plane shock waves in ultrarelativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics is investigated. The properties of the amplitudes of perturbations of physical quantities are studied depending on the components of the wave vector of a…
We study asymptotic stability of solitary wave solutions in the one-dimensional Benney-Luke equation, a formally valid approximation for describing two-way water wave propagation. For this equation, as for the full water wave problem, the…
We prove the linear and nonlinear asymptotic stability of small amplitude one-dimensional solitary waves submitted to small localized irrotational perturbations in the three dimensional Euler-Poisson system describing the dynamics of ions.…
We prove an asymptotic stability result for the water wave equations linearized around small solitary waves. The equations we consider govern irrotational flow of a fluid with constant density bounded below by a rigid horizontal bottom and…
We obtain sharp criteria for transverse stability and instability of line solitons in the discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations on one- and two-dimensional lattices near the anti-continuum limit. On a two-dimensional lattice, the…