On the spectra of periodic waves for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems |
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Authors: | Mariana Haˇraˇgu? |
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Institution: | a Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université de Franche-Comté, 16 route de Gray, 25030 Besançon cedex, France b Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, USA |
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Abstract: | We consider the problem of determining the spectrum for the linearization of an infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system about a spatially periodic traveling wave. By using a Bloch-wave decomposition, we recast the problem as determining the point spectra for a family of operators JγLγ, where Jγ is skew-symmetric with bounded inverse and Lγ is symmetric with compact inverse. Our main result relates the number of unstable eigenvalues of the operator JγLγ to the number of negative eigenvalues of the symmetric operator Lγ. The compactness of the resolvent operators allows us to greatly simplify the proofs, as compared to those where similar results are obtained for linearizations about localized waves. The theoretical results are general, and apply to a larger class of problems than those considered herein. The theory is applied to a study of the spectra associated with periodic and quasi-periodic solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, as well as periodic solutions to the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation with power nonlinearity. |
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Keywords: | Hamiltonian systems Periodic waves Stability |
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