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The longstanding problem of moving discrete solitary waves in nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger lattices is revisited. The context is photorefractive crystal lattices with saturable nonlinearity whose grand-canonical energy barrier vanishes for…
We consider the focusing $L^2$-subcritical Schr\"odinger equation in the exterior of a smooth, compact, strictly convex obstacle $\Theta \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. We construct a solution that, for large times, behaves asymptotically as a…
A concept of semiclassically concentrated solutions is formulated for the multidimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with an external field. These solutions are considered as multidimensional solitary waves. The center of mass…
We consider the following generalized derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation \begin{equation*} i\partial_tu+\partial^2_xu+i|u|^{2\sigma}\partial_xu=0,\ (t,x)\in\mathbb R\times\mathbb R \end{equation*} when $\sigma\in(0,1)$. The…
Solitary waves of nonlinear Dirac, Maxwell-Dirac and Klein-Gordon-Dirac equations are considered. We prove that the energy-momentum relation for solitary waves coincides with the Einstein energy-momentum relation for point particles.
The solitary wave solution and periodic solutions expressed in terms of elliptic Jacobi's functions are obtained for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation governing the propagation of pulses in optical fibers including the effects of…
In the present work, we consider the existence and spectral stability of multi-pulse solitary wave solutions to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with both fourth and second order dispersion terms. We first give a criterion for the…
A nonlinear generalisation of Schrodinger's equation had previously been obtained using information-theoretic arguments. The nonlinearities in that equation were of a nonpolynomial form, equivalent to the occurence of higher-derivative…
The soliton dynamics for a general class of nonlinear focusing Schr\"odinger problems in presence of non-constant external (local and nonlocal) potentials is studied by taking as initial datum the ground state solution of an associated…
We consider a semilinear Schr\"odinger equation, driven by the power degenerate second order differential operator $\nabla\cdot (|x|^{2a} \nabla), a\in (0,1)$. We construct the solitary waves, in the sharp range of parameters, as minimizers…
Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equations with focusing power nonlinearities have solitary wave solutions. The spectra of the linearized operators around these solitary waves are intimately connected to stability properties of the solitary…
Existence of solution and stability results on a class of Non Linear Schroedinger type equations with a bounded nonlinearity are obtained, for a bounded domain and with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The kind of stability under discussion…
In this paper we study existence and orbital stability for solitary waves of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation. The energy of these solutions travels as a localized packet, hence they are a particular type of solitons. In particular we…
We study solitary wave solutions of the fifth-order Korteweg - de Vries equation which contains, besides the traditional quadratic nonlinearity and third-order dispersion, additional terms including cubic nonlinearity and fifth order linear…
We obtain the most general matrix criterion for stability and instability of multi-component solitary waves considering a system of $N$ incoherently coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Soliton stability is studied as a constrained…
We address the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with intensity-dependent dispersion which was recently proposed in the context of nonlinear optical systems. Contrary to the previous findings, we prove that no solitary wave solutions exist if…
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…
We study traveling wave solutions of an equation for surface waves of moderate amplitude arising as a shallow water approximation of the Euler equations for inviscid, incompressible and homogenous fluids. We obtain solitary waves of…
The present paper is concerned with the existence of solitary wave solutions of Rosenau-type equations. By using two standard theories, Normal Form Theory and Concentration-Compactness Theory, some results of existence of solitary waves of…
We introduce a generalized version of the Ablowitz-Ladik model with a power-law nonlinearity, as a discretization of the continuum nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the same type of the nonlinearity. The model opens a way to study the…