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Traveling waves and Compactons in Phase Oscillator Lattices

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2011-10-17 v2

Abstract

We study waves in a chain of dispersively coupled phase oscillators. Two approaches -- a quasi-continuous approximation and an iterative numerical solution of the lattice equation -- allow us to characterize different types of traveling waves: compactons, kovatons, solitary waves with exponential tails as well as a novel type of semi-compact waves that are compact from one side. Stability of these waves is studied using numerical simulations of the initial value problem.

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@article{arxiv.0806.1833,
  title  = {Traveling waves and Compactons in Phase Oscillator Lattices},
  author = {Karsten Ahnert and Arkardy Pikovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1833},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

22 pages, 25 figures

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