Criteria for Identifying Amplifying Waves and Absolute Instabilities

This chapter contains sections titled: Statement of the Problem, Green's Function Formalism for the Response to a Localized Source, Proof of Criteria on Amplifying Waves and Absolute Instabilities, Propagation of Pulse Disturbances and Relations Between Temporal and Spatial Growth Rates of Convective Instabilities, Comments on the Application of the Criteria and Some Physical Interpretations, Discussion, Examples