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We obtain exact solutions of the nonlinear Dirac equation in 1+1 dimension of the form $\Psi(x,t) = \Phi(x) e^{-i \omega t}$ where the nonlinear interactions are a combination of vector-vector (V-V) and scalar-scalar (S-S) interactions with…

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We obtain the most general matrix criterion for stability and instability of multi-component solitary waves considering a system of $N$ incoherently coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Soliton stability is studied as a constrained…

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We derive an exact solitary wave solution for the $\PTb$-symmetric nonlinear Dirac equation with a scalar-scalar interaction. We consider a power-law nonlinearity of the form $|\bar{\Psi}\,\Psi|^{k}\,\Psi$ for positive values of $k$. The…

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We analyze the spectral and dynamical stability of solitary wave solutions to the Lugiato-Lefever equation (LLE) on $\mathbb{R}$. Our interest lies in solutions that arise through bifurcations from the phase-shifted bright soliton of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Lukas Bengel

It is well known that the linear stability of solutions of partial differential equations which are integrable can be very efficiently investigated by means of spectral methods. We present here a direct construction of the eigenmodes of the…

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The cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) in one dimension is considered in the presence of an intensity-dependent dispersion term. We study bright solitary waves with smooth profiles which extend from the limit where the dependence of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-22 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky , R. M. Ross

We consider the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an attractive delta potential and mass-supercritical nonlinearity. This equation admits a one-parameter family of solitary wave solutions in both the focusing and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Satoshi Masaki , Jason Murphy , Jun-ichi Segata

We study general semilinear scalar-field equations on the real line with variable coefficients in the linear terms. These coefficients are uniformly small, but slowly decaying, perturbations of a constant-coefficient operator. We are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Mashael Alammari , Stanley Snelson

This paper proves existence and stability results of solitary-wave solutions to coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with power-type nonlinearities arising in several models of modern physics. The existence of solitary waves is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Santosh Bhattarai

In the present work, we introduce a discrete formulation of the nonlinear Dirac equation in the form of a discretization of the Gross-Neveu model. The motivation for this discrete model proposal is both computational (near the continuum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-21 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena

We consider the stability problem for standing waves of nonlinear Dirac models. Under a suitable definition of linear stability, and under some restriction on the spectrum, we prove at the same time orbital and asymptotic stability. We are…

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We consider the nonlinear Dirac (NLD) equation in 1+1 dimension with scalar-scalar self-interaction in the presence of external forces as well as damping of the form $ f(x,t) - i \mu \gamma^0 \Psi$, where both $f$ and $\Psi$ are…

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We study the orbital stability of smooth solitary wave solutions of the Novikov equation, which is a Camassa-Holm type equation with cubic nonlinearities. These solitary waves are shown to exist as a one-parameter family (up to spatial…

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In the present work, we explore a nonlinear Dirac equation motivated as the continuum limit of a binary waveguide array model. We approach the problem both from a near-continuum perspective as well as from a highly discrete one. Starting…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-12-06 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. B. Aceves , A. Saxena

We study the instability of standing-wave solutions $e^{i\omega t}\phi_{\omega}(x)$ to the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation $$i\phi_t=-\triangle\phi+|x|^2\phi-|x|^b|\phi|^{p-1}\phi, \qquad \in\mathbb{R}^N, $$ where $ b > 0 $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Jianqing Chen , Yue Liu

We consider linear instability of solitary waves of several classes of dispersive long wave models. They include generalizations of KDV, BBM, regularized Boussinesq equations, with general dispersive operators and nonlinear terms. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Zhiwu Lin

Using a modified version of Weinstein's argument for constrained minimization in nonlinear dispersive equations, we prove existence of solitary waves in fully nonlocally nonlinear equations, as long as the linear multiplier is of positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Johanna Ulvedal Marstrander

We prove nonlinear stability of the fundamental self--similar solution of the wave equation with a focusing power nonlinearity $\psi_{tt}-\Delta \psi=\psi^p$ for $p=3,5,7,...$ in the radial case. The proof is based on a semigroup…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-10 Roland Donninger

The long-time asymptotics is analyzed for finite energy solutions of the 1D Schr\"odinger equation coupled to a nonlinear oscillator; mathematically the system under study is a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, whose nonlinear term includes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-15 A. I. Komech , E. A. Kopylova , D. Stuart