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View SchemaMoving lattice kinks and pulses: an inverse method
| Authors | S. Flach, Y. Zolotaryuk, K. Kladko |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | patt-sol/9812004 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9812004 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.59.6105 |
Abstract
We develop a general mapping from given kink or pulse shaped travelling-wave solutions including their velocity to the equations of motion on one-dimensional lattices which support these solutions. We apply this mapping - by definition an inverse method - to acoustic solitons in chains with nonlinear intersite interactions, to nonlinear Klein-Gordon chains, to reaction-diffusion equations and to discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger systems. Potential functions can be found in at least a unique way provided the pulse shape is reflection symmetric and pulse and kink shapes are at least $C^2$ functions. For kinks we discuss the relation of our results to the problem of a Peierls-Nabarro potential and continuous symmetries. We then generalize our method to higher dimensional lattices for reaction-diffusion systems. We find that increasing also the number of components easily allows for moving solutions.
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