Spectral and Dynamical Stability of Nonlinear Waves

by Keith Promislow and Todd Kapitula

Introduction.- Background material and notation.- Essential and absolute spectra.- Dynamical implications of spectra: dissipative systems.- Dynamical implications of spectra: Hamiltonian systems.- Dynamical implications of spectra: Hamiltonian systems.- Point spectrum: reduction to finite-rank eigenvalue problems.- Point spectrum: linear Hamiltonian systems.- The Evans function for boundary value problems.- The Evans function for Sturm-Liouville operators...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493901877
• ISBN13: 9781493901876
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 361 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"