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We prove the existence of a new type of solutions to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger system. These solutions, which we call "multi-speeds solitary waves", are behaving at large time as a couple of scalar solitary waves traveling at different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Isabella Ianni , Stefan Le Coz

We prove the instability of a ``critical'' solitary wave of the generalized Korteweg -- de Vries equation, the one with the speed at the border between the stability and instability regions. The instability mechanism involved is ``purely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew Comech , Scipio Cuccagna , Dmitry Pelinovsky

In this paper, we first consider the Rosenau equation with the quadratic nonlinearity and identify its Lie symmetry algebra. We obtain reductions of the equation to ODEs, and find periodic analytical solutions in terms of elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Ali Demirci , Yasin Hasanoglu , Gulcin M. Muslu , Cihangir Ozemir

We Proveexistence, symmetry and uniqueness of standing waves of a BCE with josephson junction. We also characterize the orbit of standing waves

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Hichem Hajaiej

We reinvestigate the stability properties of ultracompact spinning boson stars with a stable light ring using fully nonlinear 3+1 and 2+1 numerical relativity simulations and two different formulations of the Einstein equations. We find no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Tamara Evstafyeva , Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

For the generalized $p$-power Korteweg-de Vries equation, all non-periodic travelling wave solutions with non-zero boundary conditions are explicitly classified for all integer powers $p\geq 1$. These solutions are shown to consist of:…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-03-31 Stephen C. Anco , HamidReza Nayeri , Elena Recio

It is shown that the oscillations of brightness in classical Cepheids and other 'pulsating' variable stars are caused rather by the passing of radial solitary waves through the photosphere of a star, than by pulsations of a star. Radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fedor V. Prigara

In this review, we provide a concise summary of several important mathematical results for stochastic travelling waves generated by monostable and bistable reaction-diffusion stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). In particular,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Christian Kuehn

We present a class of general relativistic soliton-like solutions composed of multiple minimally coupled, massive, real scalar fields which interact only through the gravitational field. We describe a two-parameter family of solutions we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott H. Hawley , Matthew W. Choptuik

We consider in this paper travelling wave solutions to stochastic partial differential equations and corresponding wave speed. As a particular example we consider the Nagumo equation with multiplicative noise which we mainly consider in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 G. J. Lord , V. Thuemmler

In this paper, we consider the Fornberg-Whitham equation and a family of solitary wave solutions is found by using minimization principle, where a related penalization function and the concentration-compactness lemma play a key role in our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Yong Zhang , Fei Xu , Fengquan Li

We establish spectral, linear, and nonlinear stability of the vanishing and slow-moving travelling waves that arise as time asymptotic solutions to the Fisher-Stefan equation. Nonlinear stability is in terms of the limiting equations that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-18 T. T. H. Bui , P. van Heijster , R. Marangell

In this article we are concerned with the existence and orbital stability of traveling wave solutions of a general class of nonlocal wave equations: $ u_{tt}-Lu_{xx}=B(\pm |u|^{p-1}u)_{xx}$, $ p>1$. The main characteristic of this class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-20 H. A. Erbay , S. Erbay , A. Erkip

The paper deals with the studies of the nonlinear wave solutions supported by the modified FitzHugh-Nagumo (mFHN) system. It was proved in our previous work that the model, under certain conditions, possesses a set of soliton-like traveling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-06-06 Aleksandra Gawlik , Sergii Skurativskyi , Vsevolod Vladimirov

We consider the question of existence of "bell-shaped" (i.e. non-increasing for x>0 and non-decreasing for x<0) traveling waves for the strain variable of the generalized Hertzian model describing, in the special case of a p=3/2 exponent,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Stefanov , P. G. Kevrekidis

Boson stars have attracted much attention in recent decades as simple, self-consistent models of compact objects and also as self-gravitating structures formed in some dark-matter scenarios. Direct detection of these hypothetical objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Miguel Bezares , Mateja Bošković , Steven Liebling , Carlos Palenzuela , Paolo Pani , Enrico Barausse

We give a new method to prove the existence, non-existence, multiplicity, orbital stability/instability of standing waves for NLS with partial confinement without the subcritical hypothesis, even in the reduction equation. Using this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Linjie Song , Hichem Hajaiej

We look for traveling wave solutions to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a subsonic speed, covering several physical models with Sobolev subcritical nonlinear effects. Our approach is based on a variant of Sobolev-type inequality…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Laura Baldelli , Bartosz Bieganowski , Jarosław Mederski

We investigate the dynamics of matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying atomic scattering length and nonlinearity. The dynamics of bright and dark solitary waves is studied using the corresponding Gross-Pitaevskii…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Theocharis , P. Schmelcher , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Elek Csobo