Multibump solutions for discrete periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equations (Q378073)

The authors study the existence of multibump solutions for discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations with periodic potentials. They first reduce the existence of multibump homoclinic solutions to the existence of an isolated homoclinic solution with a nontrivial critical group. Then, they study the existence of homoclinic solutions with nontrivial critical groups for both superlinear and asymptotically linear discrete periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equations, and finally provide simple sufficient conditions for the existence of homoclinic solutions with nontrivial critical groups in the positive definite case. As an application, they get, without any symmetry assumptions, infinitely many geometrically distinct homoclinic solutions with exponential decay at infinity.