On the orbital stability of solitary waves for the fourth order nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation
In this paper, we present new results regarding the orbital stability of solitary standing waves for the general fourth-order Schr\"odinger equation with mixed dispersion. The existence of solitary waves can be determined both as minimizers of a constrained complex functional and by using a num...
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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15.05.2024
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Summary: | In this paper, we present new results regarding the orbital stability of
solitary standing waves for the general fourth-order Schr\"odinger equation
with mixed dispersion. The existence of solitary waves can be determined both
as minimizers of a constrained complex functional and by using a numerical
approach. In addition, for specific values of the frequency associated with the
standing wave, one obtains explicit solutions with a hyperbolic secant profile.
Despite these explicit solutions being minimizers of the constrained
functional, they cannot be seen as a smooth curve of solitary waves, and this
fact prevents their determination of stability using classical approaches in
the current literature. To overcome this difficulty, we employ a numerical
approach to construct a smooth curve of solitary waves. The existence of a
smooth curve is useful for showing the existence of a threshold power
$\alpha_0\approx 4.8$ of the nonlinear term such that if $\alpha\in
(0,\alpha_0),$ the explicit solitary wave is stable, and if $\alpha>\alpha_0$,
the wave is unstable. An important feature of our work, caused by the presence
of the mixed dispersion term, concerns the fact that the threshold value
$\alpha_0 \approx 4.8$ is not the same as that established for proving the
existence of global solutions in the energy space, as is well known for the
classical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2405.09268 |