Travelling waves in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice (Q4494877)

The author considers the dynamics of the classical one-dimensional lattice given by \[ \ddot X_n= V' (X_{n+1}- X_n)- V'(X_n- x_{n-1}), \quad n\in \mathbb{Z}, \tag{1} \] where \(X_n(\widetilde{t})\), \(\widetilde{t}\in \mathbb{R}\), gives the position of the \(n\)th particle and \(V\) is the potential due to nearest neighbour interaction. He is mainly interested in travelling wave solutions of (1). The author gives a constructive original method for obtaining all ``small'' solutions satisfying the ansatz \(X_n(\widetilde{t})= \widetilde{x} (n\tau- \widetilde{t})\), \(\widetilde{t}= \tau t\), \(x(t)= \widetilde{x} (\tau t)\). The author shows that they all belong to a finite-dimensional centre manifold, and are given by the small bounded solutions of a reversible ordinary differential equation.