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Title: | Nonlinear waves in weakly-coupled lattices |
Authors: | Sakovich, Anton |
Advisor: | Pelinovsky, Dmitry |
Department: | Mathematics |
Keywords: | nonliner lattices;discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation;Klein-Gordon lattice;nonlinear waves;discrete breathers;discrete solitons;Non-linear Dynamics;Ordinary Differential Equations and Applied Dynamics;Partial Differential Equations;Non-linear Dynamics |
Publication Date: | Apr-2013 |
Abstract: | <p>We consider existence and stability of breather solutions to discrete nonlinear Schrodinger (dNLS) and discrete Klein-Gordon (dKG) equations near the anti-continuum limit, the limit of the zero coupling constant. For sufficiently small coupling, discrete breathers can be uniquely extended from the anti-continuum limit where they consist of periodic oscillations on excited sites separated by "holes" (sites at rest).</p> <p>In the anti-continuum limit, the dNLS equation linearized about its discrete breather has a spectrum consisting of the zero eigenvalue of finite multiplicity and purely imaginary eigenvalues of infinite multiplicities. Splitting of the zero eigenvalue into stable and unstable eigenvalues near the anti-continuum limit was examined in the literature earlier. The eigenvalues of infinite multiplicity split into bands of continuous spectrum, which, as observed in numerical experiments, may in turn produce internal modes, additional eigenvalues on the imaginary axis. Using resolvent analysis and perturbation methods, we prove that no internal modes bifurcate from the continuous spectrum of the dNLS equation with small coupling.</p> <p>Linear stability of small-amplitude discrete breathers in the weakly-coupled KG lattice was considered in a number of papers. Most of these papers, however, do not consider stability of discrete breathers which have "holes" in the anti-continuum limit. We use perturbation methods for Floquet multipliers and analysis of tail-to-tail interactions between excited sites to develop a general criterion on linear stability of multi-site breathers in the KG lattice near the anti-continuum limit. Our criterion is not restricted to small-amplitude oscillations and it allows discrete breathers to have "holes" in the anti-continuum limit.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12906 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/7752 8811 4020960 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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