Existence and stability of solitary waves for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations

In this paper, we consider the fractional Korteweg-de Vries equations with general nonlinearities. By studying constrained minimization problems and applying the method of concentration-compactness, we obtain the existence of solitary waves for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations under some assumptions of the nonlinear term. Moreover, we prove that the set of minimizers is a stable set for the initial value problem of the equations, in the sense that a solution which starts near the set will remain near it for all time.