Approximations of solitary waves on lattices using weak and variational formulations (Q1196039)

The authors approximate, in two different ways, the width and height of travelling wave solutions in infinite dimensional systems of ordinary differential equations describing the time evolution of quantities such as displacement and charge at the node points of a regular lattice. These methods are based on the use of a test solution which contains parameters controlling its height, width and, in some cases, shape. In the first method these parameters have been chosen using a weak formulation of the problem and in the second method a variational formulation has been used to choose these parameters.