On the Maslov index of multi-pulse homoclinic orbits

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2009.0155zbMATH Open1186.37030OpenAlexW2147281361MaRDI QIDQ3561990FDOQ3561990

Frédéric Dias, Thomas J. Bridges, Frédéric Chardard

Publication date: 19 May 2010

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/vol465/issue2109/

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zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationHamiltonian systemsMaslov indexexterior algebrageometric numerical integrationLagrangian planes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homoclinic and heteroclinic solutions to ordinary differential equations (34C37) Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Periodic orbits of vector fields and flows (37C27) Homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits for dynamical systems (37C29) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12) Applications of variational problems to control theory (58E25) Hyperbolic singular points with homoclinic trajectories in dynamical systems (37G20)

Cites Work

• Homoclinic snaking: Structure and stability
• Instability of standing waves for non-linear Schrödinger-type equations
• Winding number formula for Maslov indices
• Maslov index for solitary waves obtained as a limit of the Maslov index for periodic waves

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• Multi-pulse solitary waves in a fourth-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation
• Stability analysis for standing pulse solutions to FitzHugh-Nagumo equations
• Computing the Maslov index of solitary waves. I: Hamiltonian systems on a four-dimensional phase space
• Computing the Maslov index of solitary waves. II: Phase space with dimension greater than four
• Maslov index for homoclinic orbits of Hamiltonian systems
• A plethora of generalised solitary gravity-capillary water waves
• Symplectic transversality and the Pego-Weinstein theory
• Heterogeneity-induced effects for pulse dynamics in FitzHugh-Nagumo-type systems
• Bifurcation to instability through the lens of the Maslov index
• First-order asymptotic perturbation theory for extensions of symmetric operators
• Hamiltonian Spectral Flows, the Maslov Index, and the Stability of Standing Waves in the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation

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