Moving gap solitons in periodic potentials

We address the existence of moving gap solitons (traveling localized solutions) in the Gross–Pitaevskii equation with a small periodic potential. Moving gap solitons are approximated by the explicit solutions of the coupled‐mode system. We show, however, that exponentially decaying traveling solutions of the Gross–Pitaevskii equation do not generally exist in the presence of a periodic potential due to bounded oscillatory tails ahead and behind the moving solitary waves. The oscillatory tails are not accounted in the coupled‐mode formalism and are estimated by using techniques of spatial dynamics and local center‐stable manifold reductions. Existence of bounded traveling solutions of the Gross–Pitaevskii equation with a single bump surrounded by oscillatory tails on a large interval of the spatial scale is proven by using these techniques. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

二阶泛函微分方程的振动性质

在本文中，我们研究了一类较广泛的二阶非线性泛函微分方程的振动性质。文中指出，在一定条件下，方程的非振动解仅有两类，而且给出了每一类非振动解存在的必要条件，同时也建立了方程振动的若干充分判据。     

Approximate damped oscillatory solutions for compound KdV-Burgers equation and their error estimates

In this paper,we focus on studying approximate solutions of damped oscillatory solutions of the compound KdV-Burgers equation and their error estimates.We employ the theory of planar dynamical systems to study traveling wave solutions of the compound KdV-Burgers equation.We obtain some global phase portraits under different parameter conditions as well as the existence of bounded traveling wave solutions.Furthermore,we investigate the relations between the behavior of bounded traveling wave solutions and the dissipation coefficient r of the equation.We obtain two critical values of r,and find that a bounded traveling wave appears as a kink profile solitary wave if |r| is greater than or equal to some critical value,while it appears as a damped oscillatory wave if |r| is less than some critical value.By means of analysis and the undetermined coefficients method,we find that the compound KdV-Burgers equation only has three kinds of bell profile solitary wave solutions without dissipation.Based on the above discussions and according to the evolution relations of orbits in the global phase portraits,we obtain all approximate damped oscillatory solutions by using the undetermined coefficients method.Finally,using the homogenization principle,we establish the integral equations reflecting the relations between exact solutions and approximate solutions of damped oscillatory solutions.Moreover,we also give the error estimates for these approximate solutions.     

A nonlinear elliptic problem with terms concentrating in the boundary

In this paper, we investigate the behavior of a family of steady‐state solutions of a nonlinear reaction diffusion equation when some reaction and potential terms are concentrated in a ε‐neighborhood of a portion Γ of the boundary. We assume that this ε‐neighborhood shrinks to Γ as the small parameter ε goes to zero. Also, we suppose the upper boundary of this ε‐strip presents a highly oscillatory behavior. Our main goal here was to show that this family of solutions converges to the solutions of a limit problem, a nonlinear elliptic equation that captures the oscillatory behavior. Indeed, the reaction term and concentrating potential are transformed into a flux condition and a potential on Γ, which depends on the oscillating neighborhood. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Bounded traveling waves of the Burgers-Huxley equation

In order to investigate bounded traveling waves of the Burgers-Huxley equation, bifurcations of codimension 1 and 2 are discussed for its traveling wave system. By reduction to center manifolds and normal forms we give conditions for the appearance of homoclinic solutions, heteroclinic solutions and periodic solutions, which correspondingly give conditions of existence for solitary waves, kink waves and periodic waves, three basic types of bounded traveling waves. Furthermore, their evolutions are discussed to investigate the existence of other types of bounded traveling waves, such as the oscillatory traveling waves corresponding to connections between an equilibrium and a periodic orbit and the oscillatory kink waves corresponding to connections of saddle-focus.     

Oscillation of third order differential equation with damping term

We study asymptotic and oscillatory properties of solutions to the third order differential equation with a damping term

$$x'''(t) + q(t)x'(t) + r(t)\left| x \right|^\lambda (t)\operatorname{sgn} x(t) = 0,{\text{ }}t \geqslant 0.$$

We give conditions under which every solution of the equation above is either oscillatory or tends to zero. In case λ ? 1 and if the corresponding second order differential equation h″ + q(t)h = 0 is oscillatory, we also study Kneser solutions vanishing at infinity and the existence of oscillatory solutions.

     

On asymptotic behavior of solutions to Korteweg-de Vries type equations related to vortex filament with axial flow

We study the global existence and asymptotic behavior in time of solutions to the Korteweg-de Vries type equation called as “Hirota” equation. This equation is a mixture of cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation and modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. We show the unique existence of the solution for this equation which tends to the given “modified” free profile by using the two asymptotic formulae for some oscillatory integrals.     

Infinitely many bounded solutions for the p-Laplacian with nonlinear boundary conditions

By applying a method due to Saint Raymond, we prove the existence of infinitely many weak solutions for a quasilinear elliptic partial differential equation, involving the p-Laplacian operator, coupled with a nonlinear boundary condition. Our main assumption is a suitable oscillatory behaviour of the nonlinearity either at infinity or at zero.     

Infinitely many bounded solutions for the <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Laplacian with nonlinear boundary conditions

By applying a method due to Saint Raymond, we prove the existence of infinitely many weak solutions for a quasilinear elliptic partial differential equation, involving the p-Laplacian operator, coupled with a nonlinear boundary condition. Our main assumption is a suitable oscillatory behaviour of the nonlinearity either at infinity or at zero.     

Solutions of Volterra integral equations with infinite delay

We present several new existence results for a Volterra integral equation with infinite delay. We discuss periodic and bounded solutions. Sufficient conditions for the existence of positive periodic solutions are also provided. The techniques we employ have not been used for this equation before. Our results generalize and complement those in the literature and several examples are presented to show their applicability. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

On the Global Solutions of the Higgs Boson Equation

In this article we study global in time (not necessarily small) solutions of the equation for the Higgs boson in the Minkowski and in the de Sitter spacetimes. We reveal some qualitative behavior of the global solutions. In particular, we formulate sufficient conditions for the existence of the zeros of global solutions in the interior of their supports, and, consequently, for the creation of the so-called bubbles, which have been studied in particle physics and inflationary cosmology. We also give some sufficient conditions for the global solution to be oscillatory in time.     

On oscillatory solutions of quasilinear differential equations

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one oscillatory solution of a second-order quasilinear differential equation are presented. These results yield also new conditions guaranteeing the coexistence of oscillatory and nonoscillatory solutions. Our approach is based on the asymptotic representation of solutions by means of a periodic function and of a suitable zero-counting function.     

New travelling wave solutions for the Fisher–KPP equation with general exponents

The Fisher–KPP equation with general nonlinear diffusion and arbitrary kinetic orders in the reaction terms is considered. The existence of oscillatory travelling wave solutions is proved for this model. Conditions for the existence of such solutions are provided.     

Periodic solutions of abstract functional differential equations with state‐dependent delay

In this paper, we are concerned with the existence of solutions of systems determined by abstract functional differential equations with infinite and state‐dependent delay. We establish the existence of mild solutions and the existence of periodic solutions. Our results are based on local Lipschitz conditions of the involved functions. We apply our results to study the existence of periodic solutions of a partial differential equation with infinite and state‐dependent delay. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Exponential asymptotics of oscillatory integrals. Application to the problem of persistence of homoclinic connections for the 02iω resonance

We explain in this Note how to obtain an exponentially small equivalent of an oscillatory integral when it involves solutions of nonlinear differential equation. The method proposed in this Note enables us to study the problem of existence of homoclinic connections to 0 for vector fields admitting a 0²iω resonance at the origin. This problem could not be solved by a direct application of the classical Melnikov method since the Melnikov function is given in this case by an exponentially small oscillatory integral.     

Delay driven Hopf bifurcation and chaos in a diffusive toxin producing phytoplankton‐zooplankton model

This paper deals with a diffusive toxin producing phytoplankton‐zooplankton model with maturation delay. By analyzing eigenvalues of the characteristic equation associated with delay parameter, the stability of the positive equilibrium and the existence of Hopf bifurcation are studied. Explicit results are derived for the properties of bifurcating periodic solutions by means of the normal form theory and the center manifold reduction for partial functional differential equations. Numerical simulations not only agree with the theoretical analysis but also exhibit the complex behaviors such as the period‐3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 12 solutions, cascade of period‐doubling bifurcation in period‐2, 4, quasi‐periodic solutions, and chaos. The key observation is that time delay may control harmful algae blooms (HABs). Moreover, numerical simulations show that the chaotic states induced by the period‐doubling bifurcation are purely temporal, which is stationary in space and oscillatory in time. The investigations may provide some new insights on harmful phytoplankton blooms.     

On the semilinear Schrödinger equation with time dependent coefficients

We consider nonlinear Schrödinger equation with time dependent coefficients. Fanelli [5] found a transformation between solutions of the original equation and of the usual Schrödinger equation with power nonlinearity involving time dependent coefficients in some Lorentz spaces. In this paper we extend the results in [5] in space‐time integrability properties of solutions. Particularly, we prove that the existence and uniqueness of solutions can be described exclusively in terms of Lebesgue spaces (not Lorentz spaces as in [5]) as far as the space integrability of solutions. We also discuss the equation with coefficient of an explicit homogeneous function and describe the associated Strichartz estimate and contraction mapping argument.     

Necessary and sufficient conditions on the asymptotic behavior of second‐order neutral delay dynamic equations with positive and negative coefficients

In this paper, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the solutions of a second‐order nonlinear neutral delay dynamic equation with positive and negative coefficients to be oscillatory or tend to zero asymptotically. We consider three different ranges of the coefficient associated with the neutral part in one of which it is allowed to be oscillatory. Thus, our results improve and generalize the existing results in the literature to arbitrary time scales. Some examples on nontrivial time scales are also given. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A reduced‐order extrapolated natural boundary element method based on POD for the 2D hyperbolic equation in unbounded domain

In this article, we primarily focuses to study the order‐reduction for the classical natural boundary element (NBE) method for the two‐dimensional (2D) hyperbolic equation in unbounded domain. To this end, we first build a semi‐discretized format about time for the hyperbolic equation and discuss the existence, stability, and convergence of the time semi‐discretized solutions. We then establish the classical fully discretized NBE format from the time semi‐discretized one and analyze the existence, stability, and convergence of the classical NBE solutions. Next, using proper orthogonal decomposition method, we build a reduced‐order extrapolated NBE (ROENBE) format containing very few unknowns but having adequately high accuracy, and we also discuss the existence, stability, and convergence of the ROENBE solutions. Finally, we use some numerical examples to show that the ROENBE method is far superior to the classical NBE one. It shows that the ROENBE method is reliable and effective for solving the 2D hyperbolic equation with the unbounded domain.     

Nonlinear Stability of Expanding Star Solutions of the Radially Symmetric Mass‐Critical Euler‐Poisson System

We prove nonlinear stability of compactly supported expanding star solutions of the mass‐critical gravitational Euler‐Poisson system. These special solutions were discovered by Goldreich and Weber in 1980. The expansion rate of such solutions can be either self‐similar or non‐self‐similar (linear), and we treat both types. An important outcome of our stability results is the existence of a new class of global‐in‐time radially symmetric solutions, which are not homologous and therefore not encompassed by the existing works. Using Lagrangian coordinates we reformulate the associated free‐boundary problem as a degenerate quasilinear wave equation on a compact spatial domain. The problem is mass‐critical with respect to an invariant rescaling and the analysis is carried out in similarity variables. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.