An elementary construction of complex patterns in nonlinear Schroumldinger equations

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An elementary construction of complex patterns in nonlinear Schr$ouml$dinger equations





The paper is devoted to particular solutions (standing waves) to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation \[ i \hbar \partial_t \psi = - (2m)^{-1}\hbar^2 \partial_{xx} \psi + W(x) \psi - \gamma |\psi|^{p-1} \psi,\quad p>1, \] in the case when \(\hbar\) tends to zero. These solutions are of the form \(\psi(x,t) = \exp( - i E t / \hbar) u(x)\) with \(u : {\mathbb{R}} \to {\mathbb{R}}\). This leads to the study of the equation \( - \varepsilon^2 u + V u = |u|^{p-1} u\) in \({\mathbb{R}}\) with \(\varepsilon\) as a small parameter. Let \(x_1, \dots x_m\) be local minima or maxima for the function \(V\). The authors prove the existence of a solution \(u_{\varepsilon}\) having particular clusters of spikes around \(x_1, \dots x_m\), where a (positive) spike around a point \(\xi\) is a solution \(u_{\varepsilon}\) to the equation \( - \varepsilon^2 u + V u = |u|^{p-1} u\) with a local maximum in a point \(\xi_{\varepsilon} \to \xi\) and such that the function \(v_{\varepsilon}(y) = u_{\varepsilon}(\xi_{\varepsilon} + \varepsilon y)\) converges uniformly (\(\varepsilon \to 0\)) on a compact set around \(\xi\) to the positive solution of \( - w + V(\xi) w = w^p\), \(w'(0) = 0\).











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