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In this work we want to explore the relationship between certain eigenvalue condition for the symbols of first order partial differential operators describing evolution processes and the linear and nonlinear stability of their stationary…
We consider stability of periodic travelling waves in the generalized reduced Ostrovsky equation with respect to co-periodic perturbations. Compared to the recent literature, we give a simple argument that proves spectral stability of all…
Non-holonomic deformations of integrable equations of the KdV hierarchy are studied by using the expansions over the so-called "squared solutions" (squared eigenfunctions). Such deformations are equivalent to perturbed models with external…
This paper is concerned with a class of partial differential equations, which are the linear combinations, with constant coefficients, of the classical flows of the KdV hierarchy. A boundary value problem with inhomogeneous boundary…
In this paper we investigate spectral properties of the damped elastic wave equation. Deducing a correspondence between the eigenvalue problem of this model and the one of Lam\'e operators with non self-adjoint perturbations, we provide…
This paper is concerned with the decay estimate of solutions to the semilinear wave equation subject to two localized dampings in a bounded domain. The first one is of the nonlinear Kelvin-Voigt type and is distributed around a neighborhood…
We study the spectral stability of the nonlinear Dirac operator in dimension $1+1$, restricting our attention to nonlinearities of the form $f(\langle\psi,\beta \psi\rangle_{\mathbb{C}^2}) \beta$. We obtain bounds on eigenvalues for the…
We study analytically and numerically the stability of the standing waves for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a point defect and a power type nonlinearity. A main difficulty is to compute the number of negative eigenvalues of the…
We consider a spectral problem associated with steady water waves of extreme form on the free surface of a rotational flow. It is proved that the spectrum of this problem contains arbitrary large negative eigenvalues and they are simple.…
We study travelling wave solutions to Korteweg--de Vries type equations which have double power nonlinearities with integer indices, such as the Gardner equation, and fractional dispersion. Whether these equations have ground state…
Let $m\in \mathbb{N}$, $\alpha\in[0,1]$, and $V$ be a 1-periodic complex-valued distribution in the negative Sobolev space $H^{-m\alpha}[0,1]$. The singular non-self-adjoint eigenvalue problem $D^{2m}u+V u=\lambda u$, $D=-i d/dx$, with…
The inverse problem of spectral analysis for the non-self-adjoint matrix Sturm-Liouville operator on a finite interval is investigated. We study properties of the spectral characteristics for the considered operator, and provide necessary…
We investigate the stabilization of a locally coupled wave equations with only one internal viscoelastic damping of Kelvin-Voigt type. The main novelty in this paper is that both the damping and the coupling coefficients are non smooth.…
We study quasi-periodic eigenvalue problems that arise in the stability analysis of periodic traveling wave solutions to Hamiltonian PDEs. We establish bounds on regions in the complex plane when the eigenvalues may deviate from the…
We consider the wave equation on non-compact star graphs, subject to a distributional damping defined through a Robin-type vertex condition with complex coupling. It is shown that the non-self-adjoint generator of the evolution problem…
We study by a combination of numerical and analytical Evans function techniques the stability of solitary wave solutions of the St. Venant equations for viscous shallow-water flow down an incline, and related models. Our main result is to…
We study the point spectrum of the linearization at a solitary wave solution $\phi_\omega(x)e^{-\mathrm{i}\omega t}$ to the nonlinear Dirac equation in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 1$, with the nonlinear term given by $f(\psi^*\beta\psi)\beta\psi$…
This paper investigates inverse potential problems of wave equations with cubic nonlinearity. We develop a methodology for establishing stability estimates for inversion of lower order coefficients. The new ingredients of our approach…
We consider the logarithmic Korteweg-de Vries (log-KdV) equation, which models solitary waves in anharmonic chains with Hertzian interaction forces. By using an approximating sequence of global solutions of the regularized generalized KdV…
We give a geometric proof of spectral stability of travelling kink wave solutions to the sine-Gordon equation. For a travelling kink wave solution of speed $c \neq \pm 1$, the wave is spectrally stable. The proof uses the Maslov index as a…