Introduction
Background materials and notation
Essential and absolute spectra
Asymptotic stability of waves in dissipative systems
Orbital stability of waves in Hamiltonian systems
Point spectrum: Reduction to finite-rank eigenvalue problems
Point spectrum: Linear Hamiltonian systems
The Evans function for boundary-value problems
The Evans function for Sturm-Liouville operators on the real line
The Evans function for nth-order operators on the real line.
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Spectral and dynamical stability of nonlinear waves by Todd Kapitula. ISBN 9781461469940. Published by Springer in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
