Related papers: Instability in nonlinear Schr\"odinger breathers
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We study the strong instability of standing waves $e^{i\omega t}\phi_\omega(x)$ for nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with an $L^2$-supercritical nonlinearity and an attractive inverse power potential, where $\omega\in\mathbb{R}$ is a…
We investigate the asymptotic stability of standing waves for a model of Schr\"odinger equation with spatially concentrated nonlinearity in space dimension three. The nonlinearity studied is a power nonlinearity concentrated at the point…
We consider existence and stability properties of nonlinear spatially periodic or quasiperiodic standing waves (SWs) in one-dimensional lattices of coupled anharmonic oscillators. Specifically, we consider Klein-Gordon (KG) chains with…
Wave amplification in nonlinear dispersive wave equations may be caused by nonlinear focussing of waves from a certain background. In the model of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation we will introduce a transformation to displaced…
The stability and dynamical properties of the so-called resonant nonlinear Schr\"odinger (RNLS) equation, are considered. The RNLS is a variant of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation with the addition of a perturbation used to…
In this paper, we consider the nonlinear fractional Schr\"odinger equations with Hartree type nonlinearity. We obtain the existence of standing waves by studying the related constrained minimization problems by applying the…
We study the instability of standing waves for nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations. Under a general assumption on nonlinearity, we prove that linear instability implies orbital instability in any dimension. For that purpose, we establish a…
We consider the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with inverse square potential \[ i\partial_t u + \Delta u + c|x|^{-2} u = - |u|^\alpha u, \quad u(0) = u_0 \in H^1, \quad (t,x) \in \mathbb{R}^+ \times \mathbb{R}^d, \] where $d \geq…
We consider the discrete p-Schr\"odinger (DpS) equation, which approximates small amplitude oscillations in chains of oscillators with fully-nonlinear nearest-neighbors interactions of order alpha = p-1 >1. Using a mapping approach, we…
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The issue of a recurrence of the modulationally unstable water wave trains within the framework of the fully nonlinear potential Euler equations is addressed. It is examined, in particular, if a modulation which appears from nowhere (i.e.,…
Specific solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, such as the Peregrine breather, are considered to be prototypes of extreme or freak waves in the oceans. An important question is, whether these solutions also exist in the…
We consider a double power nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation which possesses the algebraically decaying stationary solution $\phi_0$ as well as exponentially decaying standing waves $e^{i\omega t}\phi_\omega(x)$ with $\omega>0$. It is…
The Alber equation is a moment equation for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, formally used in ocean engineering to investigate the stability of stationary and homogeneous sea states in terms of their power spectra. In this work we…
We study the evolution of nonlinear surface gravity water-wave packets developing from modulational instability over an uneven bottom. A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with coefficients varying in space along propagation is used as…
We study the existence, the stability and the non-degeneracy of normalized standing-waves solutions to a one dimensional non-linear Schr\"odinger equation. The non-linearity belongs to a class of algebraic functions appropriately defined.…
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The study of nonlinear Schr\"odinger-type equations with nonzero boundary conditions define challenging problems both for the continuous (partial differential equation) or the discrete (lattice) counterparts. They are associated with…
We consider a class of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in two space dimensions with an attractive potential. The nonlinearity is local but rather general encompassing for the first time both subcritical and supercritical (in $L^2$)…