Spectral stability of periodic traveling wave solutions for a double dispersion equation

ABSTRACT

In this article, we investigate the spectral stability of periodic traveling waves for a cubic-quintic and double dispersion equation. Using the quadrature method, we find explict periodic waves and we also present a characterization for all positive and periodic solutions for the model using the monotonicity of the period map in terms of the energy levels. The monotonicity of the period map is also useful to obtain the quantity and multiplicity of non-positive eigenvalues for the associated linearized operator and to do so, we use tools of the Floquet theory. Finally, we prove the spectral stability by analyzing the difference between the number of negative eigenvalues of a convenient linear operator restricted to the space constituted by zero-mean periodic functions and the number of negative eigenvalues of the matrix formed by the tangent space associated to the low order conserved quantities of the evolution model.

KEYWORDS:

• Spectral stability
• double dispersion equation
• periodic waves

MATHEMATICS SUBJECT CLASSIFICATIONS:

• 76B25
• 35Q51
• 35Q53

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico [grant 303907/2021-5].