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Vakhitov–Kolokolov stability criterion

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The Vakhitov–Kolokolov stability criterion is a condition for linear stability (sometimes called spectral stability) of solitary wave solutions to a wide class of U(1)-invariant Hamiltonian systems, named after Soviet scientists Aleksandr Kolokolov (Александр Александрович Колоколов) and Nazib Vakhitov (Назиб Галиевич Вахитов). The condition for linear stability of a solitary wave with frequency has the form

where is the charge (or momentum) of the solitary wave , conserved by Noether's theorem due to U(1)-invariance of the system.

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Original formulation

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Originally, this criterion was obtained for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation,

where , , and is a smooth real-valued function. The solution is assumed to be complex-valued. Since the equation is U(1)-invariant, by Noether's theorem, it has an integral of motion, , which is called charge or momentum, depending on the model under consideration. For a wide class of functions , the nonlinear Schrödinger equation admits solitary wave solutions of the form , where and decays for large (one often requires that belongs to the Sobolev space ). Usually such solutions exist for from an interval or collection of intervals of a real line. The Vakhitov–Kolokolov stability criterion,[1][2][3][4]

is a condition of spectral stability of a solitary wave solution. Namely, if this condition is satisfied at a particular value of , then the linearization at the solitary wave with this has no spectrum in the right half-plane.

This result is based on an earlier work[5] by Vladimir Zakharov.

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Generalizations

This result has been generalized to abstract Hamiltonian systems with U(1)-invariance.[6] It was shown that under rather general conditions the Vakhitov–Kolokolov stability criterion guarantees not only spectral stability but also orbital stability of solitary waves.

The stability condition has been generalized[7] to traveling wave solutions to the generalized Korteweg–de Vries equation of the form

.

The stability condition has also been generalized to Hamiltonian systems with a more general symmetry group.[8]

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