Stability properties of solitary waves for fractional KdV and BBM equations

Abstract

This paper sheds new light on the stability properties of solitary wave solutions associated with models of Korteweg-de Vries and Benjamin\&Bona\&Mahoney type, when the dispersion is very lower. Via an approach of compactness, analyticity and asymptotic perturbation theory, we establish sufficient conditions for the existence of exponentially growing solutions to the linearized problem and so a criterium of linear instability of solitary waves is obtained for both models. Moreover, the nonlinear stability and linear instability of the ground states solutions for both models is obtained for some specific regimen of parameters. Via a Lyapunov strategy and a variational analysis we obtain the stability of the blow-up of solitary waves for the critical fractional KdV equation. The arguments presented in this investigation has prospects for the study of the instability of traveling waves solutions of other nonlinear evolution equations.

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