Moving kinks and nanopterons in the nonlinear Klein-Gordon lattice (Q1581766)

The authors aim at studying topological soliton solutions that have both nonoscillating (monotonic) and oscillating tails. In the latter case, the tails propagate with the same velocity as the kink itself. Moreover, the authors study the structure of the nonlinear waves themselves. Based on the pseudo-spectral method, the anti(kink) solutions with oscillating background (so-called nanopterons) are found as travelling waves of permanent profile propagating with constant velocity. Thus, the authors prove that the uniform propagation of narrow (anti)kinks with both monotonic and oscillating asymptotics can take place in the discrete nonlinear Klein-Gordon chain.