Stability investigation of quadratic systems with delay.
Partial differential equations endowed with a Hamiltonian structure, like the Korteweg–de Vries equation and many other more or less classical models, are known to admit rich families of periodic travelling waves. The stability theory for these waves is still in its infancy though. The issue has been tackled by various means. Of course, it is always possible to address stability from the spectral point of view. However, the link with nonlinear stability - in fact, orbital stability, since we are...
Symmetries of the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation are expressed in action-angle coordinates and characterized in terms of the periodic and Dirichlet spectrum of the associated Zakharov-Shabat system. Application: proof of the conjecture that the periodic spectrum of a Zakharov-Shabat operator is symmetric,i.e. for all , if and only if the sequence of gap lengths, , is symmetric with respect to .
Some of the completely integrable Hamiltonian systems obtained through Adler-Kostant-Symes theorem rely on two distinct Lie algebra structures on the same underlying vector space. We study here the cases when two structures are linked together by deformations.