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In this article, we construct a family of spherically symmetric thin-shell wormholes within scalar-tensor theories of gravity. In the case of wormholes symmetric across the throat, we study the matter content and analyze the stability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre , Vasiliki Karanasou

We study the $\phi^{6}$ model and derive two broad classes of lattice discretizations that admit static, translationally invariant kinks; that is, stationary kink profiles that can be centered at an arbitrary position relative to the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-30 H. Susanto , N. Karjanto

In this work we find explicit periodic wave solutions for the classical $\phi^4$-model, and study their corresponding orbital stability/instability in the energy space. In particular, for this model we find at least four different branches…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-22 José Manuel Palacios

This work investigates the spherically symmetric thin-shell wormhole solutions in four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory and explores their stabilities under radial, linear perturbations. These solutions are typically traversable and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-25 Peng Liu , Chao Niu , Wei-Liang Qian , Xiaobao Wang , Cheng-Yong Zhang

We investigate the orbital stability of black solitons for a broad class of quasilinear Schr\"odinger equations in one space dimension, with nonzero boundary conditions at infinity. Namely, our framework handles general defocusing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Erwan Le Quiniou

We explore a {\phi}^4 model with an added external parabolic potential term. This term dramatically alters the spectral properties of the system. We identify single and multiple kink solutions and examine their stability features;…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 R. M. Ross , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. K. Campbell , R. Decker , A. Demirkaya

In 1974 Dashen, Hasslacher and Neveu calculated the leading quantum correction to the mass of the kink in the scalar $\phi^4$ theory in 1+1 dimensions. The derivation relies on the identification of the perturbations about the kink as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-17 Jarah Evslin

We prove the asymptotic stability of the moving kinks for the nonlinear relativistic wave equations in one space dimension with a Ginzburg-Landau potential: starting in a small neighborhood of the kink, the solution, asymptotically in time,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-12 Alexander Komech , Elena Kopylova

We explore the space of solutions of the classical equations of motion in the Euclidean electroweak theory. We sketch a topological prescription that finds known solutions and indicates the existence of novel ones. All spatially-varying,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vishesh Khemani

Recently a linearized perturbation theory has been formulated for soliton sectors of quantum field theories. While it is more economical than alternative formalisms, such as collective coordinates, it is currently limited to solitons which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 Jarah Evslin

We consider the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation $$ \partial_t u + \partial_x (\partial_x^2 u + f(u))=0, \quad (t,x)\in [0,T)\times \mathbb{R}$$ with general $C^2$ nonlinearity $f$. Under an explicit condition on $f$ and $c>0$, there…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-10-18 Yvan Martel , Frank Merle

We construct a broad family of thin-shell wormholes with circular symmetry in (2+1)-dimensional F(R) theories of gravity, with constant scalar curvature R. We study the stability of the static configurations under perturbations preserving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-05 Cecilia Bejarano , Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

Stable embedded solitons are discovered in the generalized third-order nonlinear Schroedinger equation. When this equation can be reduced to a perturbed complex modified KdV equation, we developed a soliton perturbation theory which shows…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Yang

We examine various recently proposed discretizations of the well-known $\phi^4$ field theory. We compare and contrast the properties of their fundamental solutions including the nature of their kink-type solitary waves and the spectral…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-11-26 Ishani Roy , Sergey V. Dmitriev , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Avadh Saxena

We investigate the dynamics of travelling oscillating solitons of the cubic NLS equation under an external spatiotemporal forcing of the form $f(x,t) = a \exp[iK(t)x]$. For the case of time-independent forcing a stability criterion for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-11 Franz G. Mertens , Niurka R. Quintero , I. V. Barashenkov , A. R. Bishop

We study stability properties of kinks for the (1+1)-dimensional nonlinear scalar field theory models \begin{equation*} \partial_t^2\phi -\partial_x^2\phi + W'(\phi) = 0, \quad (t,x)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}. \end{equation*} The orbital…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Michał Kowalczyk , Yvan Martel , Claudio Muñoz , Hanne Van Den Bosch

We have examined the dynamical behavior of the kink solutions of the one-dimensional sine-Gordon equation in the presence of a spatially periodic parametric perturbation. Our study clarifies and extends the currently available knowledge on…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Angel Sanchez , A R Bishop , Francisco Dominguez-Adame

We study kink-antikink scattering in a one-parameter variant of the $\phi^4$ theory where the model parameter controls the static intersoliton force. We interpolate between the limit of no static force (BPS limit) and the regime where the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-12 C. Adam , K. Oles , T. Romanczukiewicz , A. Wereszczynski

In this paper, we continue our study of equivariant \emph{wave maps on a wormhole} initiated in our companion paper. More precisely, we study finite energy $\ell$--equivariant wave maps from the (1+3)-dimensional spacetime $\mathbb R \times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Casey Rodriguez

We prove the asymptotic stability of standing kink for the nonlinear relativistic wave equations of the Ginzburg-Landau type in one space dimension: for any odd initial condition in a small neighborhood of the kink, the solution,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-16 Alexander Komech , Elena Kopylova