The orbital stability of solitary waves for the Zakharov equation with cubic-quintic nonlinearity is studied in this paper. Based on the theory of Grillakis–Shatah–Strauss on the orbital stability of solitary wave of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems, through detailed spectral analysis and technical computation, we overcome the difficulties caused by the quintic nonlinearity in the studied equation, and prove the conditions and assumption that the orbital stability of solitary wave solutions of the studied equations needs to satisfy. Further, we obtain the conclusion that the solitary waves of the Zakharov equation with cubic-quintic nonlinearity are orbitally stable under both parameter conditions.
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