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On the Stability of Periodic Multi-Solitons of the KdV Equation
Thomas Kappeler1, Riccardo Montalto2
1Institut für Mathematik, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
In this paper we obtain the following stability result for periodic multi-solitons of the KdV equation: We prove that under any given semilinear Hamiltonian perturbation of small size , a large class of periodic multi-solitons of the KdV equation, including ones of large amplitude, are orbitally stable for a time interval of length at least . To the best of our knowledge, this is the first stability result of such type for periodic multi-solitons of large size of an integrable PDE.
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