This book constitutes the first effort to summarize a large volume of results obtained over the past 20 years in the context of the Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the physical settings that it describes.
Inhoudsopgave
I Dimensions and Components.- General Introduction and Derivation of the DNLS Equation.- The One-Dimensional Case.- The Two-Dimensional Case.- The Three-Dimensional Case.- The Defocusing Case.- Extended Solutions and Modulational Instability.- Multi Component DNLS Equations.- II Special Topics.- Experimental Results Related to DNLS Equations.- Numerical Methods for DNLS.- The Dynamics of Unstable Waves.- A Map Approach to Stationary Solutions of the DNLS Equation.- Formation of Localized Modes in DNLS.- Few-Lattice-Site Systems of Discrete Self-Trapping Equations.- Surface Waves and Boundary Effects in DNLS Equations.- Discrete Nonlinear Schr#x00F6;dinger Equations with Time-Dependent Coefficients ( of Lattice Solitons).- Exceptional Discretizations of the NLS: Exact Solutions and Conservation Laws.- Solitary Wave Collisions.- Related Models.- DNLS with Impurities.- Statistical Mechanics of DNLS.- Traveling Solitary Waves in DNLS Equations.- Decay and Strichartz Estimates for DNLS.
Over de auteur
Panayotis G. Kevrekidis received a B.S. in Physics from University of Athens, an M.S., M.Phil and Ph.D in Physics from Rutgers University. After a post-doctoral year between Princeton University and Los Alamos National Lab, he joined the department of Mathematics and Statistics of UMass, Amherst where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has published more than 200 research papers and has received a CAREER award in Applied Mathematics from the U.S. National Science Foundation, as well as very recently a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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