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We study propagation of stationary waves in disordered non-linear media described by the non-linear Schroedinger equation and show that for given boundary conditions and a given coherent wave incident on a sample the number of solutions of…
We derive and justify a normal form reduction of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation for a general pitchfork bifurcation of the symmetric bound state that occurs in a double-well symmetric potential. We prove persistence of normal form…
We investigate the properties of localized waves in systems governed by nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger type equations. We prove rigorously by bounding the Hamiltonian that nonlocality of the nonlinearity prevents collapse in, e.g.,…
We examine conditions for finite-time collapse of the solutions of the higher-order nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation incorporating third-order dispersion, self-steepening, linear and nonlinear gain and loss, and Raman scattering; this…
We review asymptotic stability of solitary waves for nonlinear dispersive equations set on the line. Our focus is threefold: first, the nonlinear Schrodinger equation; second, the notion of full asymptotic stability (which states that…
We consider equations of nonlinear Schrodinger type augmented by nonlinear damping terms. We show that nonlinear damping prevents finite time blow-up in several situations, which we describe. We also prove that the presence of a quadratic…
The nonlinear wave and Schrodinger equations on Euclidean space of any dimension, with general power nonlinearity and with both the focusing and defocusing signs, are proved to be ill-posed in the Sobolev space of index s whenever the…
We consider singular solutions of the biharmonic NLS. In the L^2-critical case, the blowup rate is bounded by a quartic-root power law, the solution approaches a self-similar profile, and a finite amount of L^2-norm, which is no less than…
The focusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in two dimensions admits vortex solitons, standing wave solutions with spatial structure, Qm(r,theta) = e^{i m theta} Rm(r). In the case of spin m = 1, we prove there exists a class of…
We consider the Schr\"odinger equation in dimension two with a fixed, pointwise, focusing nonlinearity and show the occurrence of a blow-up phenomenon with two peculiar features: first, the energy threshold under which all solutions blow up…
In this paper, we prove a universal upper bound on the blowup rate of a focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an angular momentum under a trapping harmonic potential, assuming that the initial data is radially symmetric in the…
In this article, we study the local existence of solutions for a wave equation with a nonlocal in time nonlinearity. Moreover, a blow-up results are proved under some conditions on the dimensional space, the initial data and the nonlinear…
The nonlinear evolution of the quantum two-stream instability in a plasma with counter-streaming electron beams is studied. It is shown that in the long-wave limit the nonlinear stage of the instability can be described by the elliptic…
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We investigate semilinear wave-type equations that can be recast as wave equations with derivatives perturbed by zero-order terms. This framework covers several well-studied cases, including the scale-invariant wave equation. In this…
This paper is devoted to the analysis of blow-up solutions for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with combined power-type nonlinearities \[ iu_{t}+\Delta u=\lambda_1|u|^{p_1}u+\lambda_2|u|^{p_2}u. \] When $p_1=\frac{4}{N}$ and…
We construct radially symmetric self-similar blow-up profiles for the mass supercritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $i\partial_t u + \Delta u + |u|^{p-1}u=0$ on $\mathbf{R}^d$, close to the mass critical case and for any space…
For the 3d cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, which has critical (scaling) norms $L^3$ and $\dot H^{1/2}$, we first prove a result establishing sufficient conditions for global existence and sufficient conditions for finite-time…
We investigate the blow-up for a fourth-order Schr\"odinger equation with a mas-critical focusing inhomogeneous nonlinearity. We prove the finite/infinite-time blow-up of non-radial solutions with negative energy. Our result serves as a…