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We develop an algorithm which can be used to exclude the existence of classical breathers (periodic finite energy solutions) in scalar field theories, and apply it to several cases of interest. In particular, the technique is used to show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 James N. Hormuzdiar , Stephen D. H. Hsu

We study the existence of polychromatic solutions of cubically nonlinear Maxwell equations in the whole space and with dispersive media, i.e., with a time delayed polarization. Due to the complex nature of the dielectric function, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Tomas Dohnal , Maximilian Hanisch , Runan He

We consider the question of existence of periodic solutions (called breather solutions or discrete solitons) for the Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation with saturable and power nonlinearity. Theoretical and numerical results are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-25 J. Cuevas , J. C. Eilbeck , N. I. Karachalios

For Maxwell's equations with nonlinear polarization we prove the existence of time-periodic breather solutions travelling along slab or cylindrical waveguides. The solutions are TE-modes which are localized in space directions orthogonal to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Sebastian Ohrem , Wolfgang Reichel

The paper investigates a class of a semilinear wave equation with time-dependent damping term ($-\frac{1}{{(1+t)}^{\beta}}\Delta u_t$) and a nonlinearity $|u|^p$. We will show the influence of the the parameter $\beta$ in the blow-up…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Ahmad Z. Fino , Mohamed Hamza

The Salerno model is a discrete variant of the celebrated nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation interpolating between the discrete NLS (DNLS) equation and completely integrable Ablowitz-Ladik (AL) model by appropriately tuning the relevant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-02 J. Sullivan , E. G. Charalampidis , J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Karachalios

We consider non-local in time semilinear subdiffusion equations on a bounded domain, where the kernel in the integro-differential operator belongs to a large class, which covers many relevant cases from physics applications, in particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Vicente Vergara , Rico Zacher

We construct space quasi-periodic standing wave solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations on R^d for arbitrary d. This is a type of quasi-periodic nonlinear Bloch-Floquet waves.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-30 W. -M. Wang

We consider the evolution of the 2-soliton (breather) of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation on a semi-infinite line with the zero boundary condition and a linear potential, which corresponds to the gravity field in the presence of a hard…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-16 B. A. Malomed , N. N. Rosanov , S. V. Fedorov

The breather is a vibrating multifermion bound state of the massless Gross-Neveu model, originally found by Dashen, Hasslacher and Neveu in the large N limit. We exhibit the salient features of this state and confirm that it solves the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Christian Fitzner , Michael Thies

In this overview paper, we show existence of smooth solitary-wave solutions to the nonlinear, dispersive evolution equations of the form \begin{equation*} \partial_t u + \partial_x(\Lambda^s u + u\Lambda^r u^2) = 0, \end{equation*} where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Johanna Ulvedal Marstrander

Solitons and breathers are nonlinear modes that exist in a wide range of physical systems. They are fundamental solutions of a number of nonlinear wave evolution equations, including the uni-directional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

The problem of showing the existence of localised modes in nonlinear lattices has attracted considerable efforts from the physical but also from the mathematical viewpoint where a rich variety of methods has been employed. In this paper we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Dirk Hennig , Nikos I. Karachalios

We discuss the existence of breather solutions for a Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in an infinite $N$-dimensional lattice, involving site dependent anharmonic parameter. We give a simple proof on the existence of (nontrivial)…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikos I. Karachalios

A mathematical proof for the stability of mKdV breathers is announced. This proof involves the existence of a nonlinear equation satisfied by all breather profiles, and a new Lyapunov functional which controls the dynamics of small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Miguel Angel Alejo , Claudio Muñoz

This paper is concerned with the periodic (in time) solutions to an one-dimensional semilinear wave equation with $x$-dependent coefficient. Such a model arises from the forced vibrations of a nonhomogeneous string and propagation of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Hui Wei , Shuguan Ji

In this work, we prove the existence of wave operator for the following generalized derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation \begin{align*} i\partial_t u+\partial_x^2 u +i |u|^{2\sigma}\partial_x u=0, \end{align*} with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Ruobing Bai , Jia Shen

We prove small-data global existence to semi-linear wave equations on hyperbolic space of dimension greater than or equal to three, for nonlinearities that have the form of a sufficiently high integer power of the solution. We also prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-11 Amanda French

We study the dynamics of discrete breathers -- spatially localized and time-periodic solutions -- inside the bandgap of a nonlinear honeycomb lattice where the dispersion landscape approaches a so-called semi-Dirac point in which the bands…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-10 Andrew Hofstrand

In this paper we give the \emph {quantization rules} to determine the normalized stationary solutions to the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with quasi-periodic conditions on a given interval. \ Similarly to what happen in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Andrea Sacchetti