Mathematics – Analysis of PDEs
Scientific paper
2009-10-09
Mathematics
Analysis of PDEs
Substantial revisions in the exposition of the slow modulation approximation. Also, sign errors are corrected
Scientific paper
In this paper, we consider the spectral stability of spatially periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long-wavelength perturbations. Specifically, we extend the work of Bronski and Johnson by demonstrating that the homogenized system describing the mean behavior of a slow modulation (WKB) approximation of the solution correctly describes the linearized dispersion relation near zero frequency of the linearized equations about the background periodic wave. The latter has been shown by rigorous Evans function techniques to control the spectral stability near the origin, i.e. stability to slow modulations of the underlying solution. In particular, through our derivation of the WKB approximation we generalize the modulation expansion of Whitham for the KdV to a more general class of equations which admit periodic waves with nonzero mean. As a consequence, we will show that, assuming a particular non-degeneracy condition, spectral stability near the origin is equivalent with the local well-posedness of the Whitham system.
Johnson Mathew
Zumbrun Kevin
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