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A large class of multidimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equations admit localized nonradial standing wave solutions that carry nonzero intrinsic angular momentum. Here we provide evidence that certain of these spinning excitations are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Pego , Henry A. Warchall

We consider periodic traveling wave solutions to the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) that have been shown to persist when the NLS is perturbed to the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGL). In particular, we show that these…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Ivey , Stephane Lafortune

In this paper, we determine the transverse instability of periodic standing wave solutions for the generalized Schr\"odinger equation with fractional power nonlinearity. The existence of periodic waves is determined by using a constrained…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Fabio Natali , Gabriel E. Bittencourt Moraes

We prove nonlinear modulational instability for both periodic and localized perturbations of periodic traveling waves for several dispersive PDEs, including the KDV type equations (e.g. the Whitham equation, the generalized KDV equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Jiayin Jin , Shasha Liao , Zhiwu Lin

In this paper, we study the nonlinear modulational instability of two-dimensional hydroelastic Stokes waves in infinite depth. We first justify a focusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) approximation result for 2D deep hydroelastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Lizhe Wan , Jiaqi Yang

We analyze the spectral stability of the standing periodic waves in the massive Thirring model in laboratory coordinates. Since solutions of the linearized MTM equation are related to the squared eigenfunctions of the linear Lax system, the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-09-05 Shikun Cui , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

We develop a detailed rigorous analysis of edge bifurcations of standing waves in the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on a tadpole graph (a ring attached to a semi-infinite line subject to the Kirchhoff boundary conditions at the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Diego Noja , Dmitry Pelinovsky , Gaukhar Shaikhova

We consider numerical instability that can be observed in simulations of localized solutions of the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) by a split-step method where the linear part of the evolution is solved by a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-10-15 Taras I. Lakoba

For the one dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with triple power nonlinearity and general exponents, we study analytically and numerically the existence and stability of standing waves. Special attention is paid to the curves of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Theo Morrison , Tai-Peng Tsai

We study strong instability (by blow-up) of the standing waves for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with $\delta$-interaction on a star graph $\Gamma$. The key ingredient is a novel variational technique applied to the standing wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Nataliia Goloshchapova , Masahito Ohta

We study a boundary value problem related to the search of standing waves for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on graphs. Precisely we are interested in characterizing the standing waves of NLS posed on the {\it double-bridge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Diego Noja , Sergio Rolando , Simone Secchi

We study the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on a star graph $\mathcal{G}$. At the vertex an interaction occurs described by a boundary condition of delta type with strength $\alpha\in \mathbb{R}$. We investigate an orbital…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Jaime Angulo Pava , Nataliia Goloshchapova

We study the stability/instability of standing waves for the one dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with double power nonlinearities: \begin{align*} &i\partial_t u +\partial_x^2 u -|u|^{p-1}u +|u|^{q-1}u=0, \quad (t,x)\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Masayuki Hayashi

We study the stability of the cnoidal, dnoidal and snoidal elliptic functions as spatially-periodic standing wave solutions of the 1D cubic nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations. First, we give global variational characterizations of each of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-13 Stephen Gustafson , Stefan Le Coz , Tai-Peng Tsai

We consider the focusing fractional periodic Korteweg-deVries (fKdV) and fractional periodic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations (fNLS) equations, with $L^2$ sub-critical dispersion. In particular, this covers the case of the periodic KdV and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Sevdzhan Hakkaev , Atanas G. Stefanov

We study the strong instability of standing waves for a system of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with quadratic interaction under the mass resonance condition in dimension $d=5$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Van Duong Dinh

We consider the nonlinear stability of spectrally stable periodic waves in the Lugiato-Lefever equation (LLE), a damped nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with forcing that arises in nonlinear optics. So far, nonlinear stability of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Mariana Haragus , Mathew A. Johnson , Wesley R. Perkins , Björn de Rijk

We consider a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with double power nonlinearity \begin{align*} i\partial_t u+\Delta u-|u|^{p-1}u+|u|^{q-1}u=0,\quad (t,x)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^N, \end{align*} where $1<p<q<1+4/(N-2)_+$. Due to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Noriyoshi Fukaya , Masayuki Hayashi

For the stationary nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $-\Delta u+ V(x)u- f(u) = \lambda u$ with periodic potential $V$ we study the existence and stability properties of multibump solutions with prescribed $L^2$-norm. To this end we introduce…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Nils Ackermann , Tobias Weth

We study a class of quasi-linear Schr\"odinger equations arising in the theory of superfluid film in plasma physics. First, using gauge transforms and a derivation process we solve, under some regularity assumptions, the Cauchy problem.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-23 Mathieu Colin , Louis Jeanjean , Marco Squassina