Abstract

In this paper, we study transverse linear stability of line solitary waves to the two-dimensional Benney–Luke equation which arises in the study of small amplitude long water waves in 3D. In the case where the surface tension is weak or negligible, we find a curve of resonant continuous eigenvalues of the linearized operator in a neighborhood of . Time evolution of these resonant continuous eigenmodes is described by a 1D damped wave equation in the transverse variable and it gives a linear approximation of the local phase shifts of modulating line solitary waves. In exponentially weighted space whose weight function increases in the direction of the motion of the line solitary wave, the other part of solutions to the linearized equation decays exponentially as .

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