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Absolute wave-packet instability

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Area of mathematics Analysis Partial differential equation Wave equation Dispersion relation Spatiotemporal wave-packet stability
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A localized perturbation has positive asymptotic exponential growth at a fixed observation point in the chosen reference frame. The relevant spatial pinch point of the Briggs-Bers criterion has positive imaginary frequency. Merely finding a growing temporal mode or a formal complex saddle is not sufficient; the saddle must contribute to the localized impulse response.

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