Asymptotic stability of solitary wave solutions to the regularized long-wave equation

We study the asymptotic stability of solitary wave solutions to the regularized long-wave equation (RLW) in . RLW is an equation which describes the long waves in water. To prove the result, we make use of the monotonicity of the local H¹-norm and apply the Liouville property of (RLW) as in Merle and Martel (J. Math. Pures Appl. 79 (2000) 339; Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 157 (2001) 219).