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We provide a sufficient condition for the orbital stability of negative solitary-wave solutions of the regularized long-wave equation. In particular, it is found that solitary waves with speed \( c < - \tfrac{1} {6} \) are orbitally stable.
This work was supported in part by the Research Council of Norway and the ESF Research Networking Programme HCAA.
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Nguyen, N.T., Kalisch, H. (2009). The Stability of Solitary Waves of Depression. In: Gustafsson, B., Vasil’ev, A. (eds) Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-9906-1_22
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