Spectral and linear stability of peakons in the Novikov equation

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contents The Novikov equation is a peakon equation with cubic nonlinearity which, like the Camassa-Holm and the Degasperis-Procesi, is completely integrable. In this article, we study the spectral and linear stability of peakon solutions of the Novikov equation. We prove spectral instability of the peakons in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$. To do so, we start with a linearized operator defined on $H^1(\mathbb{R})$ and extend it to a linearized operator defined on weaker functions in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$. The spectrum of the linearized operator in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ is proven to cover a closed vertical strip of the complex plane. Furthermore, we prove that the peakons are spectrally unstable on $W^{1,\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ and linearly and spectrally stable on $H^1(\mathbb{R})$. The result on $W^{1,\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ are in agreement with previous work about linear stability, while our results on $H^1(\mathbb{R})$ are in agreement with the orbital stability obtained previously.
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spellingShingle Spectral and linear stability of peakons in the Novikov equation
Lafortune, Stéphane
Analysis of PDEs
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
35B35 (Primary) 35C08, 35Q35 (Secondary)
The Novikov equation is a peakon equation with cubic nonlinearity which, like the Camassa-Holm and the Degasperis-Procesi, is completely integrable. In this article, we study the spectral and linear stability of peakon solutions of the Novikov equation. We prove spectral instability of the peakons in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$. To do so, we start with a linearized operator defined on $H^1(\mathbb{R})$ and extend it to a linearized operator defined on weaker functions in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$. The spectrum of the linearized operator in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ is proven to cover a closed vertical strip of the complex plane. Furthermore, we prove that the peakons are spectrally unstable on $W^{1,\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ and linearly and spectrally stable on $H^1(\mathbb{R})$. The result on $W^{1,\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ are in agreement with previous work about linear stability, while our results on $H^1(\mathbb{R})$ are in agreement with the orbital stability obtained previously.
title Spectral and linear stability of peakons in the Novikov equation
topic Analysis of PDEs
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
35B35 (Primary) 35C08, 35Q35 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06655