Spectral stability in the modified Camassa-Holm equation

Mathematics > Analysis of PDEs [Submitted on 18 Jun 2026] Title:Spectral stability in the modified Camassa-Holm equation View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:We investigate the spectral stability of small-amplitude, periodic, traveling-wave solutions of the modified Camassa-Holm equation with cubic nonlinearities. More precisely, we analyze the $L^2(\mr)$-spectrum of the associated linearized operator in a neighborhood of the origin in the spectral plane. Inspired by a recently novel method based on Kato's perturbation theory [Berti et al, Full description of Benjamin-Feir instability of Stokes waves in deep water, \textit{Invent. Math.}, 230 (2022), 651-711.], we provide a complete description of the spectrum near the origin of the linearized operator--an integro-differential operator with periodic coefficients--and thus prove that such waves are not subject to modulational instability. Moreover, a spectral analysis reveals a remarkable threshold phenomenon: such waves with wave number $k^2\leq 3$ exhibit spectral stability, while instability emerges when $k^2>3$. References & Citations Loading... Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Recommenders and Search Tools Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.