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The local solvability of the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear vibrating plate equation is showed in the framework of modulation spaces. In the opposite direction, it is proved that there is no local wellposedness in Wiener amalgam spaces…
We prove short-time existence of smooth solutions for a class of nonlinear, and in general spatially nonlocal, Hamiltonian evolution equations that describe the self-interaction of weakly nonlinear scale-invariant waves. These equations…
The periodic KdV equation u_t=u_{xxx}+\beta uu_x arises from a Hamiltonian system with infinite-dimensional phase space L^2(T). Bourgain has shown that there exists a Gibbs measure \nu on balls \{\phi :\Vert\Phi\Vert^2_{L^2}\leq N\} in the…
Two-dimensional nonlinear gravity waves travelling in shallow water on a vertically sheared current of constant vorticity are considered. Using Euler equations, in the shallow water approximation, hyperbolic equations for the surface…
An initial-boundary value problem for a model of stimulated Raman scattering was considered in [Moskovchenko E.A., Kotlyarov V.P., J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43 (2010), 055205, 31 pages]. The authors showed that in the long-time range…
We establish unique continuation for various discrete nonlinear wave equations. For example, we show that if two solutions of the Toda lattice coincide for one lattice point in some arbitrarily small time interval, then they coincide…
In this paper we present a construction of a new class of explicit solutions to the WDVV (or associativity) equations. Our construction is based on a relationship between the WDVV equations and Whitham (or modulation) equations. Whitham…
We consider the long time well-posedness of the Cauchy problem with large Sobolev data for a class of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations (NLS) on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with power nonlinearities of arbitrary odd degree. Specifically, the method in…
We theoretically investigate the phenomenon of modulation instability for systems obeying nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, which are under the influence of an external homogeneous synthetic magnetic field. For an initial condition, the…
The main goal of this paper is to put together: a) the Whitham theory applicable to slowly modulated $N$-phase nonlinear wave solutions to the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (fNLS) equation, and b) the Riemann-Hilbert Problem approach to…
In this paper, we prove a sharp local well-posedness result for spherically symmetric solutions to quasilinear wave equations with rough initial data, when the spatial dimension is three or higher. Our approach is based on Morawetz type…
We prove the existence of a global bifurcation branch of $2\pi$-periodic, smooth, traveling-wave solutions of the Whitham equation. It is shown that any subset of solutions in the global branch contains a sequence which converges uniformly…
Effects of nonlinear dynamics of solitary waves and wave modulations within the modular (also known as quadratically cubic) Korteweg - de Vries equation are studied analytically and numerically. Large wave events can occur in the course of…
In the present paper we consider the coupled system of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with the fractional Laplacian \[ \left\{ \begin{aligned} (-\Delta)^\alpha u_1 & = \lambda_1u_1+f_1(u_1)+\partial_1F(u_1,u_2)\ \ \mathrm{in}\…
We establish soliton-like asymptotics for finite energy solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation coupled to a nonrelativistic classical particle. Any solution with initial state close to the solitary manifold, converges to a sum of traveling…
We show the existence of weak solutions in the extended sense of the Cauchy problem for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the modulation space $M_{p,q}^{s}(\mathbb R)$ where $1\leq q\leq2$, $2\leq p<\frac{10q'}{q'+6}$ and…
We establish the asymptotic stability of smooth solitons and multi-solitons for the Camassa-Holm (CH) equation in the energy space $H^1(\R)$. We show that solutions initially close to a soliton converge, up to translation, weakly in…
A semiclassical approximation is derived by using a family of wavepackets to map arbitrary wavefunctions into phase space. If the Hamiltonian can be approximated as linear over each individual wavepacket, as often done when presenting…
We consider the long-time evolution of pulses in the Korteweg-de Vries equation theory for initial distributions which produce no soliton, but instead lead to the formation of a dispersive shock wave and of a rarefaction wave. An approach…
A spectral mapping theorem is proved that resolves a key problem in applying invariant manifold theorems to nonlinear Schr\" odinger type equations. The theorem is applied to the operator that arises as the linearization of the equation…