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April  2016, 36(4): 2047-2067. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.2047

KdV waves in atomic chains with nonlocal interactions

Michael Herrmann 1, and  Alice Mikikits-Leitner 2,

1. 

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik, Einsteinstraße 62, 48149 Münster, Germany
2. 

Technische Universität München, Zentrum Mathematik, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85747 Garching, Germany

Received  March 2015 Revised  June 2015 Published  September 2015

We consider atomic chains with nonlocal particle interactions and prove the existence of near-sonic solitary waves. Both our result and the general proof strategy are reminiscent of the seminal paper by Friesecke and Pego on the KdV limit of chains with nearest neighbor interactions but differ in the following two aspects: First, we allow for a wider class of atomic systems and must hence replace the distance profile by the velocity profile. Second, in the asymptotic analysis we avoid a detailed Fourier pole characterization of the nonlocal integral operators and employ the contraction mapping principle to solve the final fixed point problem.
Keywords: KdV limit of lattice waves, Hamiltonian lattices with nonlocal coupling., Asymptotic analysis.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 37K60, 37K40; Secondary: 74H1.
Citation: Michael Herrmann, Alice Mikikits-Leitner. KdV waves in atomic chains with nonlocal interactions. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2016, 36 (4) : 2047-2067. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.2047
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M. Chirilus-Bruckner, C. Chong, O. Prill and G. Schneider, Rigorous description of macroscopic wave packets in infinite periodic chains of coupled oscillators by modulation equations,, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S, 5 (2012), 879.  doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.879.  Google Scholar

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G. Friesecke and R. L. Pego, Solitary waves on FPU lattices. II. Linear implies nonlinear stability,, Nonlinearity, 15 (2002), 1343.  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/15/4/317.  Google Scholar

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G. Friesecke and R. L. Pego, Solitary waves on Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices. III. Howland-type Floquet theory,, Nonlinearity, 17 (2004), 207.  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/17/1/013.  Google Scholar

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M. Herrmann, K. Matthies, H. Schwetlick and J. Zimmer, Subsonic phase transition waves in bistable lattice models with small spinodal region,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 45 (2013), 2625.  doi: 10.1137/120877878.  Google Scholar

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M. Herrmann and J. D. M. Rademacher, Heteroclinic travelling waves in convex FPU-type chains,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 42 (2010), 1483.  doi: 10.1137/080743147.  Google Scholar

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A. Hoffman and C. E. Wayne, Asymptotic two-soliton solutions in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model,, J. Dynam. Differential Equations, 21 (2009), 343.  doi: 10.1007/s10884-009-9134-9.  Google Scholar

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A. Hoffman and C. E. Wayne, A simple proof of the stability of solitary waves in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model near the KdV limit,, in Infinite dimensional dynamical systems, (2013), 185.  doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4523-4_7.  Google Scholar

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T. Mizumachi, $N$-soliton states of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 43 (2011), 2170.  doi: 10.1137/100792457.  Google Scholar

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T. Mizumachi, Asymptotic stability of $N$-solitary waves of the FPU lattices,, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 207 (2013), 393.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-012-0564-x.  Google Scholar

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G. Schneider and C. E. Wayne, Counter-propagating waves on fluid surfaces and the continuum limit of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model,, in International Conference on Differential Equations, (1999), 390.   Google Scholar

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N. J. Zabusky and M. D. Kruskal, Interaction of 'solitons' in a collisionless plasma and the recurrence of initial states,, Phys. Rev. Lett., 15 (1965), 240.  doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.240.  Google Scholar

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References:
[1]

M. Chirilus-Bruckner, C. Chong, O. Prill and G. Schneider, Rigorous description of macroscopic wave packets in infinite periodic chains of coupled oscillators by modulation equations,, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S, 5 (2012), 879.  doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.879.  Google Scholar

[2]

G. Friesecke and A. Mikikits-Leitner, Cnoidal waves on Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices, 2014,, To appear in J. Dyn. Diff. Equat., ().   Google Scholar

[3]

G. Friesecke and R. L. Pego, Solitary waves on FPU lattices. I. Qualitative properties, renormalization and continuum limit,, Nonlinearity, 12 (1999), 1601.  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/12/6/311.  Google Scholar

[4]

G. Friesecke and R. L. Pego, Solitary waves on FPU lattices. II. Linear implies nonlinear stability,, Nonlinearity, 15 (2002), 1343.  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/15/4/317.  Google Scholar

[5]

G. Friesecke and R. L. Pego, Solitary waves on Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices. III. Howland-type Floquet theory,, Nonlinearity, 17 (2004), 207.  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/17/1/013.  Google Scholar

[6]

G. Friesecke and R. L. Pego, Solitary waves on Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices. IV. Proof of stability at low energy,, Nonlinearity, 17 (2004), 229.  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/17/1/014.  Google Scholar

[7]

J. Gaison, S. Moskow, J. D. Wright and Q. Zhang, Approximation of polyatomic FPU lattices by KdV equations,, Multiscale Model. Simul., 12 (2014), 953.  doi: 10.1137/130941638.  Google Scholar

[8]

M. Herrmann, Unimodal wavetrains and solitons in convex Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains,, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A, 140 (2010), 753.  doi: 10.1017/S0308210509000146.  Google Scholar

[9]

M. Herrmann, K. Matthies, H. Schwetlick and J. Zimmer, Subsonic phase transition waves in bistable lattice models with small spinodal region,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 45 (2013), 2625.  doi: 10.1137/120877878.  Google Scholar

[10]

M. Herrmann and J. D. M. Rademacher, Heteroclinic travelling waves in convex FPU-type chains,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 42 (2010), 1483.  doi: 10.1137/080743147.  Google Scholar

[11]

A. Hoffman and C. E. Wayne, Counter-propagating two-soliton solutions in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice,, Nonlinearity, 21 (2008), 2911.  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/21/12/011.  Google Scholar

[12]

A. Hoffman and C. E. Wayne, Asymptotic two-soliton solutions in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model,, J. Dynam. Differential Equations, 21 (2009), 343.  doi: 10.1007/s10884-009-9134-9.  Google Scholar

[13]

A. Hoffman and C. E. Wayne, A simple proof of the stability of solitary waves in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model near the KdV limit,, in Infinite dimensional dynamical systems, (2013), 185.  doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4523-4_7.  Google Scholar

[14]

T. Mizumachi, $N$-soliton states of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices,, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 43 (2011), 2170.  doi: 10.1137/100792457.  Google Scholar

[15]

T. Mizumachi, Asymptotic stability of $N$-solitary waves of the FPU lattices,, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 207 (2013), 393.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-012-0564-x.  Google Scholar

[16]

P. M. Morse and H. Feshbach, Methods of Theoretical Physics. 2 volumes,, McGraw-Hill Book Co., (1953).   Google Scholar

[17]

G. Schneider and C. E. Wayne, Counter-propagating waves on fluid surfaces and the continuum limit of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model,, in International Conference on Differential Equations, (1999), 390.   Google Scholar

[18]

N. J. Zabusky and M. D. Kruskal, Interaction of 'solitons' in a collisionless plasma and the recurrence of initial states,, Phys. Rev. Lett., 15 (1965), 240.  doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.240.  Google Scholar

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