An Evans function approach to spectral stability of small-amplitude shock profiles

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 885-924

  Plaza, Ramon ^a   Zumbrun, Kevin ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evans function; Spectral stability; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942657954     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2004.10.885     Document Type: Article

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