arXiv · 1903.02636
Instability of $H^1$-stable peakons in the Camassa-Holm equation
Abstract
It is well-known that peakons in the Camassa-Holm equation are $H^1$-orbitally stable thanks to the presence of conserved quantities and properties of peakons as constrained energy minimizers. By using the method of characteristics, we prove that piecewise $C^1$ perturbations to peakons grow in time in spite of their stability in the $H^1$-norm. We also show that the linearized stability analysis near peakons contradicts the $H^1$-orbital stability result, hence passage from linear to nonlinear theory is false in $H^1$.
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Fabio Natali, Dmitry E. Pelinovsky. 2019-03-06. Instability of $H^1$-stable peakons in the Camassa-Holm equation. https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02636
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