Instability of the solitary wave solutions for the genenalized derivative Nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the critical frequency case

Abstract: We study the stability theory of solitary wave solutions for the generalized derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $$ i\partial_{t}u+\partial_{x}^{2}u+i|u|^{2\sigma}\partial_x u=0. $$ The equation has a two-parameter family of solitary wave solutions of the form \begin{align*} \phi_{\omega,c}(x)=\varphi_{\omega,c}(x)\exp{\big{ i\frac c2 x-\frac{i}{2\sigma+2}\int_{-\infty}^{x}\varphi^{2\sigma}_{\omega,c}(y)dy\big}}. \end{align*} Here $ \varphi_{\omega,c}$ is some real-valued function. It was proved in \cite{LiSiSu1} that the solitary wave solutions are stable if $-2\sqrt{\omega }<c <2z_0\sqrt{\omega }$, and unstable if $2z_0\sqrt{\omega }<c <2\sqrt{\omega }$ for some $z_0\in(0,1)$. We prove the instability at the borderline case $c =2z_0\sqrt{\omega }$ for $1<\sigma<2$, improving the previous results in \cite{Fu-16-DNLS} where $3/2<\sigma<2$.