Propagation and stability of light pulses under the combined influence of the optical Kerr ellect, dispersion and diffraction are investigated by adopting a variational procedure. In particular, it is found thrt 'light bullets', i.e. radially symmetric pulses propagating without distortion, are not necessarily unstable under perturbations which do not maintain radial symmetry.
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