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First isola of modulational instability of Stokes waves in deep water

26 Jan 2024arXiv:2401.14689links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Massimiliano Berti, Alberto Maspero, Paolo Ventura

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We prove high-frequency modulational instability of small-amplitude Stokes waves in deep water under longitudinal perturbations, providing the first isola of unstable eigenvalues branching off from i3/4. Unlike the finite depth case this is a degenerate problem and the real part of the unstable eigenvalues has a much smaller size than in finite depth. By a symplectic version of Kato theory we reduce to search the eigenvalues of a 2×2 Hamiltonian and reversible matrix which has eigenvalues with non-zero real part if and only if a certain analytic function is not identically zero. In deep water we prove that the Taylor coefficients up to order three of this function vanish, but not the fourth-order one.

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