Breather solutions for a quasi‐linear ‐dimensional wave equation

DOI10.1111/SAPM.12455MaRDI QIDQ6085673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. Reichel

Publication date 12 December 2023

Published in Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12824

zbMATH Keywords

breathernonlinear Maxwell equationsquasiinear wave equationtime-periodic spatially localized solutions.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) Soliton solutions (35C08) Second-order quasilinear hyperbolic equations (35L72) Maxwell equations (35Q61)

Abstract: We consider the $(1+1)$-dimensional quasilinear wave equation $g(x)w_{tt}-w_{xx}+h(x)(w_t^3{)}_t=0$ on $mathbbRimesmathbbR$ which arises in the study of localized electromagnetic waves modeled by Kerr-nonlinear Maxwell equations. We are interested in time-periodic, spatially localized solutions. Here $gin{L}^{infty}(mathbbR)$ is even with $gotequiv0$ and $h(x)=gamma,delt{a}_0(x)$ with $$ and $delt{a}_0$ the delta-distribution supported in $0$. We assume that $0$ lies in a spectral gap of the operators $L_k=-frac{d}^{2}d{x}^2-k^{2}omeg{a}^{2}g$ on $L^2(mathbbR)$ for all $kin2mathbbZ+1$ together with additional properties of the fundamental set of solutions of $L_k$. By expanding $w$ into a Fourier series in time we transfer the problem of finding a suitably defined weak solution to finding a minimizer of a functional on a sequence space. The solutions that we have found are exponentially localized in space. Moreover, we show that they can be well approximated by truncating the Fourier series in time. The guiding examples, where all assumptions are fulfilled, are explicitly given step potentials and periodic step potentials $g$. In these examples we even find infinitely many distinct breathers.

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