From non-local gap solitary waves to bound states in periodic media

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 468, Issue 2137, 2012, Pages 116-135

  Akylas, T R ^a   Hwang, Guenbo ^b   Yang, Jianke ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Bound states; Periodic media; Solitary waves

Indexed keywords

ARCH BRIDGES; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

BLOCH BAND; BOUND STATE; COUNTABLE SET; DINGER EQUATION; FUNDAMENTAL SOLITONS; GAP SOLITON; HIGH-ORDER; LINEAR WAVES; NONLOCAL; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PEAK AMPLITUDE; PERIODIC MEDIA; PERIODIC POTENTIALS; POWER CURVES; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SMALL AMPLITUDE; SPECIFIC LOCATION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84862908293     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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