Spectral stability of periodic waves for the Zakharov system

Abstract

The paper concerns with the stability of periodic travelling waves of dnoidal type of the Zakharov system. This problem was considered in Angulo-Brango, Nonlinearity'11, where it was shown that subject to a technical condition on the perturbation, such waves are orbitally stable, with respect to perturbations of the same period. Our main result fills up the gap created by the aforementioned technical condition. More precisely, we show that for all natural values of the parameters, the periodic dnoidal waves are spectrally stable.