Krein signature for instability of PT-symmetric states

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2018.01.009MaRDI QIDQ1640905zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Chernyavsky, Dmitry Pelinovsky

Publication date 14 June 2018

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05756

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetryKrein signaturenonlinear Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discontinuous ordinary differential equations (34A36) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Numerical computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices (65F15)

Abstract: Krein quantity is introduced for isolated neutrally stable eigenvalues associated with the stationary states in the $mathcalPT$-symmetric nonlinear Schr"{o}dinger equation. Krein quantity is real and nonzero for simple eigenvalues but it vanishes if two simple eigenvalues coalesce into a defective eigenvalue. A necessary condition for bifurcation of unstable eigenvalues from the defective eigenvalue is proved. This condition requires the two simple eigenvalues before the coalescence point to have opposite Krein signatures. The theory is illustrated with several numerical examples motivated by recent publications in physics literature.

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