Mel'nikov theory of coupled perturbed discretized NLS equations (Q1125132)

This paper deals with a Melnikov type analysis to detect the splitting of homoclinic manifolds in a large class of near-integrable, multi-dimensional systems that usually arise as modal truncations or discretizations of hyperbolic type nonlinear partial differential equations under periodic boundary conditions. To this end the author uses Fenichel's fibration to explain the complicated geometry of invariant manifolds. In this case the near-integrable system admits a codimension 4 center manifold and a codimension 2 center-stable and center-unstable manifold. The author applies this theory to a system of two coupled perturbed discretized nonlinear Schrödinger equations in the periodic domain.