Periodic Traveling Waves of the Regularized Short Pulse and Ostrovsky Equations: Existence and Stability

Abstract

We construct various periodic traveling wave solutions of the Ostrovsky/Hunter--Saxton/short pulse equation and its KdV regularized version. For the regularized short pulse model with small Coriolis parameter, we describe a family of periodic traveling waves which are a perturbation of appropriate KdV solitary waves. We show that these waves are spectrally stable. For the short pulse model, we construct a family of traveling peakons with corner crests. We show that the peakons are spectrally stable as well.