Rogue wave patterns associated with Okamoto polynomial hierarchies

We show that new types of rogue wave patterns exist in integrable systems, and these rogue patterns are described by root structures of Okamoto polynomial hierarchies. These rogue patterns arise when the τ functions of rogue wave solutions are determinants of Schur polynomials with index jumps of three, and an internal free parameter in these rogue waves gets large. We demonstrate these new rogue patterns in the Manakov system and the three-wave resonant interaction system. For each system, we derive asymptotic predictions of its rogue patterns under a large internal parameter through Okamoto polynomial hierarchies. Unlike the previously reported rogue patterns associated with the Yablonskii–Vorob'ev hierarchy, a new feature in the present rogue patterns is that the mapping from the root structure of Okamoto-hierarchy polynomials to the shape of the rogue pattern is linear only to the leading order, but becomes nonlinear to the next order. As a consequence, the current rogue patterns are often deformed, sometimes strongly deformed, from Okamoto-hierarchy root structures, unless the underlying internal parameter is very large. Our analytical predictions of rogue patterns are compared to true solutions, and excellent agreement is observed, even when rogue patterns are strongly deformed from Okamoto-hierarchy root structures.     

Pattern selection in the 2D FitzHugh–Nagumo model

We construct square and target patterns solutions of the FitzHugh–Nagumo reaction–diffusion system on planar bounded domains. We study the existence and stability of stationary square and super-square patterns by performing a close to equilibrium asymptotic weakly nonlinear expansion: the emergence of these patterns is shown to occur when the bifurcation takes place through a multiplicity-two eigenvalue without resonance. The system is also shown to support the formation of axisymmetric target patterns whose amplitude equation is derived close to the bifurcation threshold. We present several numerical simulations validating the theoretical results.

     

Singularly perturbed and nonlocal modulation equations for systems with interacting instability mechanisms

Summary Two related systems of coupled modulation equations are studied and compared in this paper. The modulation equations are derived for a certain class of basic systems which are subject to two distinct, interacting, destabilising mechanisms. We assume that, near criticality, the ratio of the widths of the unstable wavenumber-intervals of the two (weakly) unstable modes is small—as, for instance, can be the case in double-layer convection. Based on these assumptions we first derive a singularly perturbed modulation equation and then a modulation equation with a nonlocal term. The reduction of the singularly perturbed system to the nonlocal system can be interpreted as a limit in which the width of the smallest unstable interval vanishes. We study and compare the behaviour of the stationary solutions of both systems. It is found that spatially periodic stationary solutions of the nonlocal system exist under the same conditions as spatially periodic stationary solutions of the singularly perturbed system. Moreover, these solutions can be interpreted as representing the same quasi-periodic patterns in the underlying basic system. Thus, the ‘Landau reduction’ to the nonlocal system has no significant influence on the stationary quasi-periodic patterns. However, a large variety of intricate heteroclinic and homoclinic connections is found for the singularly perturbed system. These orbits all correspond to so-called ‘localised structures’ in the underlying system: They connect simple periodic patterns atx → ± ∞. None of these patterns can be described by the nonlocal system. So, one may conclude that the reduction to the nonlocal system destroys a rich and important set of patterns.     

Asymptotics and existence of bounded solutions of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the half-line

We study the asymptotics and existence of nonzero bounded solutions of the Schrödinger equation on the half-line with potential that implicitly depends on the wave function via a nonlinear second-order ordinary differential equation. We prove the existence of countably many nonzero bounded solutions on the half-line and derive asymptotic formulas at infinity for these solutions.     

Multiparametric Families of Solutions of the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili-I Equation,the Structure of Their Rational Representations,and Multi-Rogue Waves

We construct solutions of the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili-I equation in terms of Fredholm determinants. We deduce solutions written as a quotient of Wronskians of order 2N. These solutions, called solutions of order N, depend on 2N?1 parameters. They can also be written as a quotient of two polynomials of degree 2N(N +1) in x, y, and t depending on 2N?2 parameters. The maximum of the modulus of these solutions at order N is equal to 2(2N + 1)². We explicitly construct the expressions up to the order six and study the patterns of their modulus in the plane (x, y) and their evolution according to time and parameters.     

Has the NLS equation anything to do with quantum mechanics?

We show that squarely integrable solutions of the NLS equation can be considered as wavefunctions, in the sense that these solutions yield distributions of the position of a particle in a nonlinear potential well.     

Spatial chaotic structure of attractors of reaction-diffusion systems

The dynamics described by a system of reaction-diffusion equations with a nonlinear potential exhibits complicated spatial patterns. These patterns emerge from preservation of homotopy classes of solutions with bounded energies. Chaotically arranged stable patterns exist because of realizability of all elements of a fundamental homotopy group of a fixed degree. This group corresponds to level sets of the potential. The estimates of homotopy complexity of attractors are obtained in terms of geometric characteristics of the potential and other data of the problem.

     

The membrane inclusions curvature equations

We examine a system of equations arising in biophysics whose solutions are believed to represent the stable positions of N conical proteins embedded in a cell membrane. Symmetry considerations motivate two equivalent refomulations of the system which allow the complete classification of solutions for small N<13. The occurrence of regular geometric patterns in these solutions suggests considering a simpler system, which leads to the detection of solutions for larger N up to 280. We use the most recent techniques of Gröbner bases computation for solving polynomial systems of equations.     

Analysis of stable two-dimensional patterns in contractile cytogel

Summary Contractile actomyosin systems play a central role in the generation of intracellular patterns. Models for pattern formation have benefited greatly from the application of mechanochemical theory. However, investigations of the patterns have been primarily qualitative in nature; the two-dimensional nature of the evolving patterns has not yet been addressed mathematically, nor has the evolution of stable heterogeneous steady-state solutions. We consider these issues, supporting our analytical predictions with numerical simulations in one and two spatial dimensions. We show how, for certain gels, the two and three-dimensional tensor equation which describes a balance of forces can be reduced to a reaction-diffusion equation.     

Coulomb Gas Representation for Rational Solutions of the Painlevé Equations

We consider rational solutions for a number of dynamic systems of the type of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, in particular, the Levi system. We derive the equations for the dynamics of poles and Bäcklund transformations for these solutions. We show that these solutions can be reduced to rational solutions of the Painlevé IV equation, with the equations for the pole dynamics becoming the stationary equations for the two-dimensional Coulomb gas in a parabolic potential. The corresponding Coulomb systems are derived for the Painlevé II–VI equations. Using the Hamiltonian formalism, we construct the spin representation of the Painlevé equations.     

On minimal support properties of solutions of Schrödinger equations

In this paper we obtain minimal support properties of solutions of Schrödinger equations. We improve previously known conditions on the potential for which the measure of the support of solutions cannot be too small. We also use these properties to obtain some new results on unique continuation for the Schrödinger operator.     

Qualitative analysis of stationary Keller–Segel chemotaxis models with logistic growth

We study the stationary Keller–Segel chemotaxis models with logistic cellular growth over a one-dimensional region subject to the Neumann boundary condition. We show that nonconstant solutions emerge in the sense of Turing’s instability as the chemotaxis rate \({\chi}\) surpasses a threshold number. By taking the chemotaxis rate as the bifurcation parameter, we carry out bifurcation analysis on the system to obtain the explicit formulas of bifurcation values and small amplitude nonconstant positive solutions. Moreover, we show that solutions stay strictly positive in the continuum of each branch. The stabilities of these steady-state solutions are well studied when the creation and degradation rate of the chemical is assumed to be a linear function. Finally, we investigate the asymptotic behaviors of the monotone steady states. We construct solutions with interesting patterns such as a boundary spike when the chemotaxis rate is large enough and/or the cell motility is small.     

Electroosmotic flow and heat transfer in a heterogeneous circular microchannel

Asymmetries in boundary condition are inevitable in practice in microfluidic channels, despite being rarely addressed from theoretical perspectives. Here, by arriving at closed form analytical solutions, we bring out a unique coupling between asymmetries in surface charge and heat transfer in electroosmotically driven microchannel flows. For illustration, we assume that the channel is laterally composed of two parts, each having specified values of the zeta potential and the wall heat flux. Considering low zeta potentials, we obtain analytical solutions in terms of infinite series for the dimensionless forms of the electric potential, the velocity, and the temperature distributions. We demonstrate that, by carefully adjusting the governing parameters, a variety of flow patterns may be achieved, a property that is crucial in applications such as liquid-phase transportation and mixing. Moreover, we show that the average velocity is a linear function of both the zeta potential ratio and the coverage factor. We further show that the average Nusselt number increases when part of the channel having the larger heat flux enlarges and the zeta potential of the part having the smaller surface charge increases. Hence, the maximum heat transfer rates are achieved when the boundary conditions are symmetrical.     

Asymmetric Spotty Patterns for the Gray–Scott Model in R2

In this paper, we rigorously prove the existence and stability of asymmetric spotty patterns for the Gray–Scott model in a bounded two-dimensional domain. We show that given any two positive integers   k ₁, k ₂  , there are asymmetric solutions with   k ₁  large spots (type A) and   k ₂  small spots (type B). We also give conditions for their location and calculate their heights. Most of these asymmetric solutions are shown to be unstable. However, in a narrow range of parameters, asymmetric solutions may be stable.     

A Class of Pattern-Forming Models

Summary. A general class of nonlinear evolution equations is described, which support stable spatially oscillatory steady solutions. These equations are composed of an indefinite self-adjoint linear operator acting on the solution plus a nonlinear function, a typical example of the latter being a double-well potential. Thus a Lyapunov functional exists. The linear operator contains a parameter ρ which could be interpreted as a measure of the pattern-forming tendency for the equation. Examples in this class of equations are an integrodifferential equation studied by Goldstein, Muraki, and Petrich and others in an activator-inhibitor context, and a class of fourth-order parabolic PDE's appearing in the literature in various physical connections and investigated rigorously by Coleman, Leizarowitz, Marcus, Mizel, Peletier, Troy, Zaslavskii, and others. The former example reduces to the real Ginzburg-Landau equation when ρ = 0 . The most complete results, including threshold results for the appearance of globally minimizing patterns and many other properties of the patterns themselves, are given for complex-valued solutions in one space variable. A complete linear stability analysis for all such sinusoidal solutions is also given; it extends the set of stable solutions considerably beyond the global minimizers. Other results, including threshold results and the existence of large amplitude patterns as well as of bifurcating solutions, are provided for real-valued solutions; these results are relatively independent of the number of space variables. Finally, a slightly different class of evolution equations is given for which no patterned global minimizer exists, but a sequence of patterned solutions exist whose instabilities (if they are unstable) become ever weaker and the fineness of the oscillation becomes ever more pronounced. Received March 2, 1998; revised January 5, 1999; accepted March 16, 1999     

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.     

On Double Wave Type Flows

Siberian Mathematical Journal - We study the potential double wave equation and the system of spatial double wave equations. In the class of solutions of multiple wave type, these equations are...     

Stationary layered solutions in {\Bbb R}^2 for an Allen–Cahn system with multiple well potential

We study entire solutions on of the elliptic system where is a multiple-well potential. We seek solutions which are “heteroclinic,” in two senses: for each fixed they connect (at ) a pair of constant global minima of , and they connect a pair of distinct one dimensional stationary wave solutions when . These solutions describe the local structure of solutions to a reaction-diffusion system near a smooth phase boundary curve. The existence of these heteroclinic solutions demonstrates an unexpected difference between the scalar and vector valued Allen–Cahn equations, namely that in the vectorial case the transition profiles may vary tangentially along the interface. We also consider entire stationary solutions with a “saddle” geometry, which describe the structure of solutions near a crossing point of smooth interfaces. Received April 15, 1996 / Accepted: November 11, 1996     

Nonlinear waves in complex oscillator network with delay

We investigate the spatio-temporal patterns of Hopf bifurcating periodic solutions in a delay complex oscillator network. Firstly, we calculate the critical values of Hopf bifurcation. Secondly, the bifurcating periodic solutions can take on two cases: one is synchronization or anti-synchronization, and another is the coexistence of two phase-locked, N mirror-reflecting and N standing waves, because the system has group symmetry. Finally, the stability of these nonlinear oscillations is determined using the center manifold theorem and normal form method with the imaginary eigenvalues being simple and double.     

Chaos,solitons and fractals in hidden symmetry models

A spontaneous symmetry breaking (or hidden symmetry) model is reduced to a system nonlinear evolution equations integrable via an appropriate change of variables, by means of the asymptotic perturbation (AP) method, based on spatio-temporal rescaling and Fourier expansion. It is demonstrated the existence of coherent solutions as well as chaotic and fractal patterns, due to the possibility of selecting appropriately some arbitrary functions. Dromion, lump, breather, instanton and ring soliton solutions are derived and the interaction between these coherent solutions are completely elastic, because they pass through each other and preserve their shapes and velocities, the only change being a phase shift. Finally, one can construct lower dimensional chaotic patterns such as chaotic–chaotic patterns, periodic–chaotic patterns, chaotic soliton and dromion patterns. In a similar way, fractal dromion and lump patterns as well as stochastic fractal excitations can appear in the solution.