When gap solitons become embedded solitons: A generic unfolding

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 177, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 50-70

  Wagenknecht, T ^a   Champneys, A R ^b  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degenerate equilibrium; Embedded soliton; Homoclinic bifurcation; Reversible system

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0037445381     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00773-X     Document Type: Article

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