NONLINEAR WAVES IN NEWTON'S CRADLE AND THE DISCRETE p-SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION

DOI10.1142/S0218202511005763zbMath1331.70042arXiv1008.1153OpenAlexW2963805825MaRDI QIDQ2883369

Guillaume James

Publication date: 10 May 2012

Published in: Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1153

zbMATH Keywords

periodic traveling wavesdiscrete breathersmodulation equationdiscrete \(p\)-LaplacianHamiltonian latticeHertzian contactNewton's cradlefully nonlinear dispersion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear waves in solid mechanics (74J30) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Systems with slow and fast motions for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K70) The dynamics of infinite particle systems (70F45)

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