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Stability of solitary and cnoidal traveling wave solutions for a fifth order Korteweg-de Vries equation (1707.09954v2)
Published 31 Jul 2017 in math-ph and math.MP
Abstract: We establish the nonlinear stability of solitary waves (solitons) and periodic traveling wave solutions (cnoidal waves) for a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation which includes a fifth order dispersive term. The traveling wave solutions which yield solitons for zero boundary conditions and wave-trains of cnoidal waves for nonzero boundary conditions are analyzed using stability theorems, which rely on the positivity properties of the Fourier transforms. We show that all families of solutions considered here are (orbitally) stable.