Advances in Differential Equations, cilt.16, sa.5-6, ss.523-550, 2011 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
We establish local well-posedness results in weak periodic function spaces for the Cauchy problem of the Benney system. The Sobolev space H1/2×L2 is the lowest regularity attained and also we cover the energy space H1×L2, where global well posedness follows from the conservation laws of the system. Moreover, we show the existence of a smooth explicit family of periodic travelling waves of dnoidal type and we prove, under certain conditions, that this family is orbitally stable in the energy space.