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In this work, we investigate the existence and orbital (in)stability of several branches of standing--wave solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) posed on a looping--edge graph $\mathcal{G}$, consisting of a circle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Jaime Angulo Pava , Alexander Muñoz

Discrete breathers, or intrinsic localized modes, are spatially localized, time--periodic, nonlinear excitations that can exist and propagate in systems of coupled dynamical units. Recently, some experiments show the sighting of a form of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 F. R. Romero , J. F. R. Archilla , F. Palmero , B. Sanchez-Rey , A. Alvarez , J. Cuevas , J. M. Romero

We study stationary capillary-gravity waves in a two-dimensional body of water that rests above a flat ocean bed and below vacuum. This system is described by the Euler equations with a free surface. Our main result states that there exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Mats Ehrnström , Samuel Walsh , Chongchun Zeng

We investigate the existence and spectral stability of traveling wave solutions for a class of fourth-order semilinear wave equations, commonly referred to as beam equations. Using variational methods based on a constrained maximization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vishnu Iyer , Ross Parker , Atanas G. Stefanov

This paper studies for large frequency number $k>0$ the existence and multiplicity of solutions of the semilinear problem $$ -\Delta u -k^2 u=Q(x)|u|^{p-2}u\quad\text{ in }\mathbb{R}^N, \quad N\geq 2. $$ The exponent $p$ is subcritical and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Gilles Evéquoz

In this paper, we investigate the semilinear equation with a time-space fractional structural damping and a nonlocal in time nonlinearity \begin{equation*} {\mathbf{D}}_{0|t}^{1+\alpha_1}u + (-\Delta)^\sigma u+(-\Delta…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-25 K. Bouguetof

We consider an infinite chain of particles linearly coupled to their nearest neighbours and subject to an anharmonic local potential. The chain is assumed weakly inhomogeneous. We look for small amplitude discrete breathers. The problem is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 Guillaume James , Bernardo Sanchez-Rey , Jesus Cuevas

The radiation condition is the key question in the mathematical modelling for scattering problems in unbounded domains. Mathematically, it plays the role as the "boundary condition" at the infinity, which guarantees the well-posedness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Ruming Zhang

We demonstrate the global existence of weak solutions to a class of semilinear strongly damped wave equations possessing nonlinear hyperbolic dynamic boundary conditions. Our work assumes $(-\Delta_W)^\theta \partial_tu$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Joseph L. Shomberg

We establish necessary conditions for the existence of solutions to a class of semilinear hyperbolic problems on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds, extending some nonexistence results for the wave operator with power nonlinearity on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Dario D. Monticelli , Fabio Punzo , Marco Squassina

The dynamics of sine-Gordon breathers is studied in the presence of dissipative and stochastic perturbations. Taking a stationary breather with a random phase value as the initial state, the performed simulations demonstrate that a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-01-20 Duilio De Santis , Claudio Guarcello , Bernardo Spagnolo , Angelo Carollo , Davide Valenti

The main concern of this paper is to mathematically investigate the formation of a plasma sheath near the surface of nonplanar walls. We study the existence and asymptotic stability of stationary solutions for the nonisentropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Mingjie Li , Masahiro Suzuki

This is a continuation of Ref.[1](arXiv:nlin.PS/2001.07758v1). In the present paper, we consider the solution to the modified Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equation $u_{ t} + C u_{z} + \beta u_{zzt} + a u^{2} u_{z}=0$ using the generalized…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-05-22 G. T. Adamashvili

The main result of this research Monograph is the existence of small amplitude time quasi-periodic solutions for autonomous nonlinear wave equations $$ u_{tt} - \Delta u + V(x) u + g(x, u) = 0 \, , \quad x \in T^d \, , \quad g (x,u) = a(x)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Massimiliano Berti , Philippe Bolle

We demonstrate the existence of wavenumber bandgap (q-gap) breathers in a time-periodic phononic lattice. These breathers are localized in time and periodic in space, and are the counterparts to the classical breathers found in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-10-13 Christopher Chong , Brian Kim , Evelyn Wallace , Chiara Daraio

For a one-dimensional linear lattice, earlier work has shown how to systematically construct a slowly-decaying linear potential bearing a localized eigenmode embedded in the continuous spectrum. Here, we extend this idea in two directions:…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-01-05 Faustino Palmero , Mario I. Molina , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We numerically study the existence of travelling breathers in Klein-Gordon chains, which consist of one-dimensional networks of nonlinear oscillators in an anharmonic on-site potential, linearly coupled to their nearest neighbors.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Yannick Sire , Guillaume James

We construct oscillatory solutions of fully semilinear wave equations in Minkowski space satisfying a null condition of the form $$\square u:=(-\partial_{x_0}^2 +\sum_{j=1}^n \partial_{x_j}^2 )u=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Joel Nathe , Antônio Sá Barreto

By applying an out-of-phase actuation at the boundaries of a uniform chain of granular particles, we demonstrate experimentally that time-periodic and spatially localized structures with a nonzero background (so-called dark breathers)…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Chong , F. Li , J. Yang , M. O. Williams , I. G. Kevrekidis , P. G. Kevrekidis , C. Daraio

We prove some existence (and sometimes also uniqueness) of weak solutions to some stationary equations associated to the complex Schr\''{o}dinger operator under the presence of a singular nonlinear term. Among other new facts, with respect…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Pascal Bégout , Jesús Ildefonso Díaz