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We investigate the existence of ground states at prescribed mass on general metric graphs with half-lines for focusing doubly nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations involving both a standard power nonlinearity and delta nonlinearities located at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Filippo Boni , Simone Dovetta

We study standing waves for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a star graph {$\mathcal{G}$} i.e. $N$ half-lines joined at a vertex. At the vertex an interaction occurs described by a boundary condition of delta type with strength…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 R. Adami , C. Cacciapuoti , D. Finco , D. Noja

We review some recent results on the minimization of the energy associated to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation on non-compact graphs. Starting from seminal results given by the author together with C. Cacciapuoti, D. Finco, and D. Noja…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Riccardo Adami

We study the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on noncompact metric graphs under general self-adjoint vertex conditions ensuring the existence of a negative eigenvalue of the Hamiltonian operator. First, we focus on the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Élio Durand-Simonnet , Damien Galant , Boris Shakarov

We compare ground states for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on metric graphs, defined as global minimizers of the action functional constrained on the Nehari manifold, and least action solutions, namely minimizers of the action among…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Colette De Coster , Simone Dovetta , Damien Galant , Enrico Serra

We analyse the existence and the stability of the ground states of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a focusing power nonlinearity and a defect located at the origin. In this paper a ground state is defined as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Riccardo Adami , Takaaki Nakamura , Alice Ruighi

We study standing waves for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a discrete graph. We characterize for a self-adjoint realizations of Schr\"odinger operators conditions related with the geometry of the graph that guarantee discreteness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Setenay Akduman , Matthias Hofmann , Sedef Karakılıç

In this work, we investigate the existence and orbital (in)stability of several branches of standing--wave solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) posed on a looping--edge graph $\mathcal{G}$, consisting of a circle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Jaime Angulo Pava , Alexander Muñoz

We study the existence of ground states to a nonlinear fractional Kirchhoff equation with an external potential $V$. Under suitable assumptions on $V$, using the monotonicity trick and the profile decomposition, we prove the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-26 Zhisu Liu , Marco Squassina , Jianjun Zhang

We consider the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation with the subcritical power nonlinearity on a star graph consisting of $N$ edges and a single vertex under generalized Kirchhoff boundary conditions. The stationary NLS equation may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Adilbek Kairzhan , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We investigate the existence of ground states with prescribed mass for the NLS energy with combined $L^2$-critical and subcritical nonlinearities, on a general non-compact metric graph $\mathcal{G}$. The interplay between the different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Dario Pierotti , Nicola Soave

We study the NLS Equation on the line with a point interaction given by the superposition of an attractive delta potential with a dipole interaction, in the cases of $L^2$-subcritical and $L^2$-critical nonlinearity. For a subcritical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Riccardo Adami , Filippo Boni , Takaaki Nakamura , Alice Ruighi

We study the existence and qualitative properties of action ground-states (that is, bound-states with minimal action) {of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation} over single-knot metric graphs -- which are made of half-lines, loops and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Francisco Agostinho , Simão Correia , Hugo Tavares

We are concerned with a system of coupled Schr\"odinger equations $$-\Delta u_i + V_i(x)u_i = \partial_{u_i}F(x,u)\hbox{ on }\mathbb{R}^N,\,i=1,2,...,K,$$ where $F$ and $V_i$ are periodic in $x$ and $0\notin \sigma(-\Delta+V_i)$ for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Jarosław Mederski

We study the nature of the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation ground states on the product spaces $\R^n\times M^k$, where $M^k$ is a compact Riemannian manifold. We prove that for small $L^2$ masses the ground states coincide with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Susanna Terracini , Nikolay Tzvetkov , Nicola Visciglia

We present a brief overview on the existence/nonexistence of standing waves for the NonLinear Schr\"odinger and the NonLinear Dirac Equations (NLSE/NLDE) on metric graphs with localized nonlinearity. We first focus on the NLSE, both in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-06 William Borrelli , Raffaele Carlone , Lorenzo Tentarelli

In this paper, we apply the method of the Nehari manifold to study the Kirchhoff type equation \begin{equation*} -\Big(a+b\int_\Omega|\nabla u|^2dx\Big)\Delta u=f(x,u) \end{equation*} submitted to Dirichlet boundary conditions. Under a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Cyril Joel Batkam

We investigate the existence of ground states with fixed mass for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a pure power nonlinearity on periodic metric graphs. Within a variational framework, both the $L^2$-subcritical and critical regimes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Simone Dovetta

We study nonlinear Dirac equations (NLDE) on periodic quantum graphs endowed with Kirchhoff-type vertex conditions. Our main goal is to establish existence and multiplicity of bound states, which arise as critical points of the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Zhipeng Yang , Ling Zhu

The paper aims at giving a first insight on the existence/nonexistence of ground states for the $L^2$-critical NLS equation on metric graphs with localized nonlinearity. In particular, we focus on the tadpole graph, which, albeit being a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Simone Dovetta , Lorenzo Tentarelli