Stability of Solitary Capillary-Gravity Water Waves in Three Dimensions

Abstract

This paper establishes the conditional orbital stability of fully localized solitary waves for the three-dimensional capillary-gravity water wave problem in finite depth under strong surface tension. The waves, constructed via a non-variational Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction in [26], are not energy minimizers and thus require a direct stability analysis. We adapt the Grillakis-Shatah-Strauss framework within Mielke's approach to handle the mismatch between well-posedness and energy spaces. The proof relies on spectral analysis of the linearized dynamics and careful treatment of the Hamiltonian structure defined by the energy and momentum functionals.