  In this paper, we study the transverse stability of the line Schr\"{o}dinger
soliton under a full wave guide Schr\"{o}dinger flow on a cylindrical domain
$\mathbb R\times\mathbb T$. When the nonlinearity is of power type
$|\psi|^{p-1}\psi$ with $p>1$, we show that there exists a critical frequency
$\omega_{p} >0$ such that the line standing wave is stable for $0<\omega <
\omega_{p}$ and unstable for $\omega > \omega_{p}$. Furthermore, we
characterize the ground state of the wave guide Schr\"{o}dinger equation. More
precisely, we prove that there exists $\omega_{*} \in (0, \omega_{p}]$ such
that the ground states coincide with the line standing waves for $\omega \in
(0, \omega_{*}]$ and are different from the line standing waves for $\omega \in
(\omega_{*}, \infty)$.
