Stability of periodic Kuramoto-Sivashinsky waves

In this note, we announce a general result resolving the long-standing question of nonlinear modulational stability, or stability with respect to localized perturbations, of periodic travelingwave solutions of the generalized Kuramoto{Sivashinski equation, establishing that spectral modulational stability, dened in the standard way, implies nonlinear modulational stability with sharp rates of decay. The approach extends readily to other second- and higher-order parabolic equations, for example, the Cahn Hilliard equation or more general thin lm models.

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