2020/04/07 by José M. Palacios, Palacios, José Manuel
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2004.03599
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The Novikov equation is an integrable Camassa-Holm type equation with cubic nonlinearity. One of the most important features of this equation is the existence of peakon and multi-peakon solutions, i.e. peaked traveling waves behaving as solitons. This paper aims to prove both, the orbital and asymptotic stability of peakon trains solutions, i.e. multi-peakon solutions such that their initial configuration is increasingly ordered. Furthermore, we give an improvement of the orbital stability of a single peakon so that we can drop the non-negativity hypothesis on the momentum density. The same result also holds for the orbital stability for peakon trains, i.e. in this latter case we can also avoid assuming non-negativity of the initial momentum density. Finally, as a corollary of these results together with some asymptotic formulas for the position and momenta vectors for multi-peakon solutions, we obtain the orbital and asymptotic stability for initially not well-ordered multipeakons.