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In this paper we consider the transverse instability for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a linear potential on $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{T}_L$, where $2\pi L$ is the period of the torus $\mathbb{T}_L$. Rose and Weinstein showed the…
We investigate the properties of standing waves to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with inverse-square potential on the half-line. We first establish the existence of standing waves. Then, by a variational characterization of the ground…
In this paper, we determine the spectral instability of periodic odd waves for the defocusing fractional cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Our approach is based on periodic perturbations that have the same period as the standing wave…
Periodic waves are standing wave solutions of nonlinear Schr\''odinger equations whose profile is periodic in space dimension one. We consider general nonlinearities and provide variational characterizations for the periodic wave profiles.…
In this paper, we determine the transversal instability of periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in two space dimensions. Using an adaptation of the arguments in \cite{nikolay} in the periodic…
In this paper, the existence and orbital stability of the periodic standing waves solutions for the nonlinear fractional Schrodinger (fNLS) equation with cubic nonlinearity is studied. The existence is determined by using a minimizing…
In this paper, we consider the nonlinear fractional Schr\"odinger equations with Hartree type nonlinearity. We obtain the existence of standing waves by studying the related constrained minimization problems by applying the…
We consider the stability and instability of periodic travling waves for Korteweg-de Vries type equations with fractional dispersion and other nonlinear dispersive equations. We establish that a constrained minimizer for the related…
In this paper, we investigate the instability of one-dimensionally stable periodic traveling wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation to long wavelength transverse perturbations in the generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov…
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…
We study analytically and numerically the stability of the standing waves for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a point defect and a power type nonlinearity. A main difficulty is to compute the number of negative eigenvalues of the…
We study the existence and stability of the standing waves for the periodic cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a point defect determined by a periodic Dirac distribution at the origin. This equation admits a smooth curve of…
We study the existence and stability of periodic traveling-wave solutions for the quadratic and cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in one space dimension.
We study the instability of standing-wave solutions $e^{i\omega t}\phi_{\omega}(x)$ to the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation $$i\phi_t=-\triangle\phi+|x|^2\phi-|x|^b|\phi|^{p-1}\phi, \qquad \in\mathbb{R}^N, $$ where $ b > 0 $…
We present a method to prove nonlinear instability of solitary waves in dispersive models. Two examples are analyzed: we prove the nonlinear long time instability of the KdV solitary wave (with respect to periodic transverse perturbations)…
We study a system of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with cubic interactions in one space dimension. The orbital stability and instability of semitrivial standing wave solutions are studied for both non-degenerate and degenerate cases.
A nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with repulsive (defocusing) nonlinearity is considered. As an example, a system with a spatially varying coefficient of the nonlinear term is studied. The nonlinearity is chosen to be repelling except on a…
A class of periodic solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with non- Hermitian potentials are considered. The system may be implemented in planar nonlinear optical waveguides carrying an appropriate distribution of local gain and…
We present a general result of transverse nonlinear instability of 1-d solitary waves for Hamiltonian PDE's for both periodic or localized transverse perturbations. Our main structural assumption is that the linear part of the 1d model and…
We show the strong instability of radial ground state standing waves for the focusing $L^2$-supercritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with inverse-square potential \[ i\partial_t u + \Delta u + c|x|^{-2} u = - |u|^{\alpha} u, \quad…