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We prove that if $u(t)$ is a log-log blow-up solution, of the type studied by Merle-Rapha\"el (2001-2005), to the $L^2$ critical focusing NLS equation $i\partial_t u +\Delta u + |u|^{4/d} u=0$ with initial data $u_0\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^d)$ in…
Wave propagation problems have many applications in physics and engineering, and the stochastic effects are important in accurately modeling them due to the uncertainty of the media. This paper considers and analyzes a fully discrete finite…
Wave self-focusing in molecular systems subject to thermal effects, such as thin molecular films and long biomolecules, can be modeled by stochastic versions of the Discrete Self-Trapping equation of Eilbeck, Lomdahl and Scott, and this can…
We first point out it is conditional to apply the variational approach to the nonlocal nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NNLSE), that is, the response function must be an even function. Different from the variational approach, the…
We extend our previous result on the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation to the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with the focusing cubic nonlinearity in three dimensions, for radial data of energy at most slightly above that of the ground state.…
We consider the focusing wave equation outside a ball of $\R^3$, with Dirichlet boundary condition and a superquintic power nonlinearity. We classify all radial stationary solutions, and prove that all radial global solutions are…
We study a defocusing semilinear wave equation, with a power nonlinearity $|u|^{p-1}u$, defined outside the unit ball of $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n\ge3$, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that if $p>n+4$ and the initial data are…
We present a novel approximation method that can predict the number of solitons asymptotically appearing under arbitrary rapidly decreasing initial wave packets. The number of solitons can be estimated without integration of the original…
The focusing cubic wave equation in three spatial dimensions has the explicit solution $\sqrt{2}/t$. We study the stability of the blowup described by this solution as $t \to 0$ without symmetry restrictions on the data. Via the conformal…
In this work we consider a semi-linear energy critical wave equation in ${\mathbb R}^d$ ($3\leq d \leq 5$) \[ \partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = \pm \phi(x) |u|^{4/(d-2)} u, \qquad (x,t)\in {\mathbb R}^d \times {\mathbb R} \] with initial data…
The existence of ``dispersion-managed solitons'', i.e., stable pulsating solitary-wave solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with periodically modulated and sign-variable dispersion is now well known in nonlinear optics. Our…
We present the results of a numerical experiment inspired by the semiclassical (zero-dispersion) limit of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger (NLS) equation. In particular, we focus on the Gaussian semiclassical soliton ensemble, a family…
We construct a novel family of exact cnoidal wave and soliton solutions of the focusing and defocusing Ablowitz-Ladik equations. Unlike cnoidal waves that were obtained by earlier authors, the phase variable of the new solutions exhibits a…
We consider the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a focusing cubic term and a defocusing quintic nonlinearity in dimensions two and three. The core of this article is the notion of stability of solitary waves. We recall the two standard…
We consider the Cauchy problem for the stochastic Hartree nonlinear wave equations (SHNLW) with a cubic convolution nonlinearity and an additive stochastic forcing on the Euclidean space. Our goal in this paper is two-fold. (i) We study the…
We study an intense-short pulse propagation in a saturable cubic-quintic nonlinear media in the presence of nonlinear dispersion within the framework of an extended variational approach. We derive an effective equation for the pulse width…
We consider the defocusing $\dot H^1$-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in all dimensions ($n\geq 3$) with a quadratic potential $V(x)=\pm \tfrac12 |x|^2$. We show global well-posedness for radial initial data obeying $\nabla…
One of the most common assumptions in the study of neutron star models and their oscillations is that the pressure is isotopic, however there are arguments that this may not be correct. Thus in the present paper we make a first step towards…
We prove the existence of energy solutions of the energy critical focusing wave equation in R^3 which blow up exactly at x=t=0. They decompose into a bulk term plus radiation term. The bulk is a rescaled version of the stationary "soliton"…
Existence of non-resonant solutions of time-periodic type are established for the Kuznetsov equation with a periodic forcing term. The equation is considered in a three-dimensional whole-space, half-space and bounded domain, and with both…