Transverse instability for periodic waves of KP-I and Schrödinger equations

Sevdzhan Hakkaev, Milena Stanislavova, Atanas Stefanov

Published 2010-12-14Version 1

We consider the quadratic and cubic KP - I and NLS models in $1+2$ dimensions with periodic boundary conditions. We show that the spatially periodic travelling waves (with period $K$) in the form $u(t,x,y)=\vp(x-c t)$ are spectrally and linearly unstable, when the perturbations are taken to be with the same period. This strong instability implies other instabilities considered recently - for example with respect to perturbations with periods $nK, n=2, 3, ...$ or bounded perturbations.