Abstract
The decay of metastable patterns in the form of magnetic liquid ridges
is studied in the frame of a linear stability analysis where the
ridges are the most unstable linear pattern of the Rosensweig
instability. The analysis of the corresponding dispersion relation
reveals that different sets of solutions exist. Two of them are
associated with an oscillatory and a pure exponential decay,
respectively.
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