Spectral and dynamical stability of nonlinear waves Todd Kapitula, Keith Promislow

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapitula, Todd

Contributor:

Promislow, Keith, 1964-

Series:

Applied mathematical sciences (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.) v. 185

Applied mathematical sciences 0066-5452 v. 185

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonlinear waves.

Nonlinear wave equations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY Springer ©2013

Language Note:

English

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Summary:

This book unifies the dynamical systems and functional analysis approaches to the linear and nonlinear stability of waves. It synthesizes fundamental ideas of the past 20+ years of research, carefully balancing theory and application. The book isolates and methodically develops key ideas by working through illustrative examples that are subsequently synthesized into general principles. Many of the seminal examples of stability theory, including orbital stability of the KdV solitary wave, and asymptotic stability of viscous shocks for scalar conservation laws, are treated in a textbook fashion for the first time. It presents spectral theory from a dynamical systems and functional analytic point of view, including essential and absolute spectra, and develops general nonlinear stability results for dissipative and Hamiltonian systems. The structure of the linear eigenvalue problem for Hamiltonian systems is carefully developed, including the Krein signature and related stability indices. The Evans function for the detection of point spectra is carefully developed through a series of frameworks of increasing complexity. Applications of the Evans function to the Orientation index, edge bifurcations, and large domain limits are developed through illustrative examples. The book is intended for first or second year graduate students in mathematics, or those with equivalent mathematical maturity. It is highly illustrated and there are many exercises scattered throughout the text that highlight and emphasize the key concepts. Upon completion of the book, the reader will be in an excellent position to understand and contribute to current research in nonlinear stability

Contents:

Introduction Background Material and Notation Essential and Absolute Spectra Asymptotic Stability of Waves in Dissipative Systems Orbital Stability of Waves in Hamiltonian Systems Point Spectrum: Reduction to Finite-Rank Eigenvalue Problems Point Spectrum: Linear Hamiltonian Systems The Evans Function for Boundary-Value Problems The Evans Function for Sturm-Liouville Operators on the Real Line The Evans Function for nth-Order Operators on the Real Line

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Printed edition:

ISBN:

9781461469957

1461469953

1461469945

9781461469940

9781461469964

1461469961

9781493901876

1493901877

OCLC:

849317905

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