Stability of Travelling Wave Solutions to the Sine-Gordon Equation
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wavestabilitytravellingequationgeometrickinkproofsine-gordon
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We give a geometric proof of spectral stability of travelling kink wave solutions to the sine-Gordon equation. For a travelling kink wave solution of speed $c \neq \pm 1$, the wave is spectrally stable. The proof uses the Maslov index as a means for determining the lack of real eigenvalues. Ricatti equations and further geometric considerations are also used in establishing stability.
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