Floquet’s Theorem and Stability of Periodic Solitary Waves

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Aloisio Neves1
1Departamento de Matemática, IMECC-Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil

Tóm tắt

This paper is concerned with the spectrum the Hill operator L(y) = −y′′ + Q(x) y in $${L^{2}_{\rm per}[0, \pi]}$$ . We show that the eigenvalues of L can be characterized by knowing one of its eigenfunctions. Applications are given to nonlinear stability of a class of periodic problems.

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