False complex saddle in dissipative cubic dispersion

ID: false-complex-saddle-in-dissipative-cubic-dispersion

For these constants, every real-wavenumber growth rate is . The real-contour impulse integral decays with envelope at fixed position. Yet the stationary candidate has . It cannot be a contributing spatial pinch point; otherwise it would contradict the real-contour growth bound. This explicit example shows why solving the algebraic saddle equations is insufficient for absolute wave-packet instability.

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