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Nonlinear Dirac Equation On Graphs With Localized Nonlinearities: Bound States And Nonrelativistic Limit

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Abstract

In this paper we study the nonlinear Dirac (NLD) equation on noncompact metric graphs with localized Kerr nonlinearities, in the case of Kirchhoff-type conditions at the vertices. Precisely, we discuss existence and multiplicity of the bound states (arising as critical points of the NLD action functional) and we prove that, in the L2L^2-subcritical case, they converge to the bound states of the NLS equation in the nonrelativistic limit.

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@article{arxiv.1807.06937,
  title  = {Nonlinear Dirac Equation On Graphs With Localized Nonlinearities: Bound States And Nonrelativistic Limit},
  author = {William Borrelli and Raffaele Carlone and Lorenzo Tentarelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.06937},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

34 pages, 4 figures. Keywords: nonlinear Dirac equations, metric graphs, nonrelativistic limit, variational methods, bound states, linking. Some minor revisions have been made with respect the previous version