Nonlinear stability of two-dimensional periodic waves in parabolic systems with conservation laws

Abstract

We develop a stability theory for two-dimensional periodic traveling waves of general parabolic systems, possibly including conservation laws. In particular, we identify a diffusive spectral stability assumption and prove that it implies nonlinear stability for variously-(non)localized perturbations, including critically nonlocalized perturbations. Thus we extend the stability parts of Johnson et al., Invent. Math. 2014, to two-dimensional patterns and of Melinand-Rodrigues, preprint 2024, to systems with conservation laws. In doing so we need to bypass two kinds of low spectral regularity, explicitly conic-like singularities due to multidimensionality and Jordan-block like singularities due to conservation laws.