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We study the behavior of solitary-wave solutions of some generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with an external potential. The equations have the feature that in the absence of the external potential, they have solutions describing…

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We consider a class of pseudodifferential evolution equations of the form $$u_t + (n(u) + Lu)_x = 0,$$ in which $L$ is a linear smoothing operator and $n$ is at least quadratic near the origin; this class includes in particular the Whitham…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Mats Ehrnström , Mark D. Groves , Erik Wahlén

Reaction-nonlinear diffusion partial differential equations can exhibit shock-fronted travelling wave solutions. Prior work by Yi et. al. (2021) has demonstrated the existence of such waves for two classes of regularisations, including…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Ian Lizarraga , Robert Marangell

In this work, we present a stability criteria for the solitary wave solutions to a BBM system that contains coupled nonlinear terms. Using the idea by Bona, Chen and Karakashian and exploiting the accurate point spectrum information of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Hongqiu Chen , Xiaojun Wang

In this paper, we investigate the spectral stability of periodic traveling waves in the two dimensional gravity-capillary water wave problem. We derive a stability criterion based on an index function, whose sign determines the spectral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Changzhen Sun , Erik Wahlén

We study the stability properties of the Kidder-Scheel-Teukolsky (KST) many-parameter formulation of Einstein's equations for weak gravitational waves on flat space-time from a continuum and numerical point of view. At the continuum,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Gioel Calabrese , Jorge Pullin , Olivier Sarbach , Manuel Tiglio

We discuss the (in)stability of solitary waves for a quasi-linear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. The equation contains a quasi-linear term, responsible for a saturation effect, as well as a power nonlinearity. For different exponents of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Meriem Bahhi , Jonas Lampart , Christian Klein , Simona Rota Nodari

We study singularity formation in two one-dimensional nonlinear wave models with quadratic time-derivative nonlinearities. The non-null model violates the null condition and typically develops finite-time blow-up; the null-form model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Jie Liu , Faiq Raees

We consider the one-dimensional nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with a double power focusing-defocusing nonlinearity \begin{equation*} \partial_{t}^{2}u-\partial_{x}^{2}u+u-|u|^{p-1}u+|u|^{q-1}u=0,\quad \mbox{on}\ [0,\infty)\times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Xu Yuan

In this paper, we study transverse linear stability of line solitary waves to the $2$-dimensional Benney-Luke equation which arises in the study of small amplitude long water waves in $3$D. In the case where the surface tension is weak or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-13 Tetsu Mizumachi , Yusuke Shimabukuro

Solitary waves in a general nonlinear lattice are discussed, employing as a model the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic nonlinear coefficient. An asymptotic theory is developed for long solitary waves, that span a…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-05 Guenbo Hwang , T. R. Akylas , Jianke Yang

The Korteweg-de Vries and Benjamin-Ono nonlinear wave equations can describe solitary waves, all of which propagate in the same direction and which emerge from collisions with their shapes unchanged. There are technical challenges to giving…

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In this note we study the generalized 2D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equations $\partial_tu+\Delta\partial_xu+u^k\partial_xu=0$ for $k\ge 2$. By an iterative method we prove the local well-posedness of these equations in the Sobolev spaces…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-21 Stéphane Vento , Francis Ribaud

Spatial solitary waves in colloidal suspensions of spherical dielectric nanoparticles are considered. The interaction of the nanoparticles is modelled as a hard-sphere gas, with the Carnahan-Starling formula used for the gas…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-10 T. R. Marchant , N. F. Smyth

In this paper, two kinds of the exact singular solutions are obtained by the improved homogeneous balance (HB) method and a nonlinear transformation. The two exact solutions show that special singular wave patterns exists in the classical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yang Lei , Yang Kongqing

We consider solutions to the Benjamin-Ono equation $$\partial_t u - H \partial_x^2 u = -\partial_x(u^2)$$ that are localized in a reference frame moving to the right with constant speed. We show that any such solution that decays at least…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Gavin Stewart

In this paper, we investigate the stability and uniqueness of generalized traveling wave solutions of lattice Fisher-KPP equations with general time and space dependence. We first show the existence, uniqueness, and stability of strictly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Feng Cao , Wenxian Shen

In the present work we explore features of single and pairs of solitary waves in a fractional variant of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. Motivated by the recent experimental realization of arbitrary fractional exponents, upon…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-20 Robert J. Decker , A. Demirkaya , T. J. Alexander , P. G. Kevrekidis

In the present work, we consider the existence, stability, and dynamics of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation. We start by introducing the Soler model of self-interacting spinors, and discuss its localized waveforms in one, two,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-12-10 J. Cuevas-Maraver , N. Boussaïd , A. Comech , R. Lan , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena