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By applying a staggered driving force in a prototypical discrete model with a quartic nonlinearity, we demonstrate the spontaneous formation and destruction of discrete breathers with a selected frequency due to thermal fluctuations. The…
Using the Darboux transformation for the Korteweg-de Vries equation, we construct and analyze exact solutions describing the interaction of a solitary wave and a traveling cnoidal wave. Due to their unsteady, wavepacket-like character,…
We introduce Rayleigh functional for nonlinear systems. It is defined using the energy functional and the normalization properties of the variables of variation. The key property of the Rayleigh quotient for linear systems is preserved in…
Specific solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, such as the Peregrine breather, are considered to be prototypes of extreme or freak waves in the oceans. An important question is, whether these solutions also exist in the…
In this article we prove the existence of a new family of periodic solutions for discrete, nonlinear Schrodinger equations subject to spatially localized driving and damping. They provide an alternate description of the metastable behavior…
An exact nonsingular solitary wave solution of the Schafer-Wayne short pulse equation is derived from the breather solution of the sine-Gordon equation by means of a transformation between these two integrable equations.
It is shown that pairs of solitary pulses (SPs) in a linearly-coupled system with opposite group-velocity dispersions form robust breathing bound states. The system can be realized by temporal-modulation coupling of SPs with different…
We derive a new generalization of the nonlinear variational wave equation. We prove existence of local, smooth solutions for this system. As a limiting case, we recover the nonlinear variational wave equation.
We derive the two-breather solution of the class I infinitely extended nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE). We present a general form of this multi-parameter solution that includes infinitely many free parameters of the equation and free…
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New problem is studied that is to find nonlinear differential equations with special solutions expressed via the Weierstrass function. Method is discussed to construct nonlinear ordinary differential equations with exact solutions. Main…
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…
We prove nonexistence of breathers (spatially localized and time-periodic oscillations) for a class of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices representing an uncompressed chain of beads interacting via Hertz's contact forces. We then consider the…
We study the dynamics of the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattice initialized such that a very long transitory period of time in which standard Boltzmann statistics is insufficient is reached. Our study of the nonlinear system locked…
In this paper we show a systematical method to obtain exact solutions of the nonautonomous nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. An integrable condition is first obtained by the Painlev\`e analysis, which is shown to be consistent with…
We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions of discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger-type (DNLS) equations. For a conservative system, we consider the global in time solvability and the question of existence of standing wave solutions.…
We study a derivative nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation, allowing non-integer powers in the nonlinearity, $|u|^{2\sigma} u_x$. Making careful use of the energy method, we are able to establish short-time existence of solutions with initial…
In this paper, we are concerned with stable solutions , possibly unbounded and sign-changing, of some semi-linear elliptic problem with mixed nonlinear boundary conditions. We establish the nonexistence of stable solutions, the main methods…
We prove that in contrast to the free wave equation in $\R^3$ there are no incoming solutions of Maxwell's equations in the form of spherical or modulated spherical waves. We construct solutions which are corrected by lower order incoming…
In this paper we consider the nonlinear fractional logarithmic Schr\"{o}dinger equation. By using a compactness method, we construct a unique global solution of the associated Cauchy problem in a suitable functional framework. We also prove…