On the connection problem for potentials with several global minima

DOI10.1512/iumj.2008.57.3181zbMath1162.65060OpenAlexW2016811967MaRDI QIDQ3545863

Publication date: 11 December 2008

Published in: Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1512/iumj.2008.57.3181

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian systems action functional heteroclinic connections global minima

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase plane analysis, limit cycles for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K05) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Numerical methods for initial value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L05) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for the numerical solution of initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M50) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Homoclinic and heteroclinic trajectories for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K44)

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