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This paper concerns the existence of generalized solitary waves (solitary waves with small ripples at infinity) for a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) lattice. It is proved that the FPUT lattice problem has a generalized solitary-wave solution with the amplitude of those ripples algebraically small using dynamical system approach. The problem is first formulated as a dynamical system problem and then the center manifold reduction theorem with Laurent series expansion is applied to show that this system can be reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations with dimension five. Its dominant system has a homoclinic solution. By applying a perturbation method and adjusting some appropriate constants, it is shown that this homoclinic solution persists for the original dynamical system, which connects to a periodic solution of algebraically small amplitude at infinity (called generalized homoclinic solution), which yields the existence of a generalized solitary wave for the FPUT lattice. The result presented here with the algebraic smallness of those ripples will be needed to show the existence of generalized multi-hump waves for the FPUT lattice later.

The $abcd$-Boussinesq system is a model of two equations that can describe the propagation of small-amplitude long waves in both directions in the water of finite depth. Considering the Hamiltonian regimes, where the parameters $b$ and $d$ in the system satisfy $b=d>0$, small solutions in the energy space are globally defined. Then, a variational approach is applied to establish the existence and nonlinear stability of the set of solitary-wave solutions for the generalized $abcb$-Boussinesq system. The main point of the analysis is to show that the traveling-wave solutions of the generalized $abcb$-Boussinesq system converge to nontrivial solitary-wave solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation. Moreover, if $p$ is the exponent of the nonlinear terms for the generalized $abcb$-Boussinesq system, then the nonlinear stability of the set of solitary-waves is obtained for any $p$ with $ 0 < p < p_0$ where $p_0 $ is strictly larger than $4$, while it has been known that the critical exponent for the stability of solitary waves of the generalized KdV equations is equal to $ 4$., Comment: 40 pages. Comments are welcome. We rewrite Lemma 3.1 and add an extra appendix with the concentration-compactness argument

As one of the seven open problems in the addendum to their 1989 book "Computability in Analysis and Physics", Pour-El and Richards proposed ``... the recursion theoretic study of particular nonlinear problems of classical importance. Examples are the Navier-Stokes equation, the KdV equation, and the complex of problems associated with Feigenbaum's constant.'' In this paper, we approach the question of whether the Navier-Stokes Equation admits recursive solutions in the sense of Weihrauch's Type-2 Theory of Effectivity. A natural encoding (``representation'') is constructed for the space of divergence-free vector fields on 2-dimensional open square $\Omega = (-1, 1)^2$. This representation is shown to render first the mild solution to the Stokes Dirichlet problem and then a strong local solution to the nonlinear inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes initial value problem uniformly computable. Based on classical approaches, the proofs make use of many subtle and intricate estimates which are developed in the paper for establishing the computability results.

In the last 40 years the study of initial boundary value problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation has had the attention of researchers from various research fields. In this note we present a review of the main results about this topic and also introduce interesting open problems which still requires attention from the mathematical point of view., Comment: 11 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1703.08154

In this paper we consider the initial boundary value problem of the Korteweg-de Vries equation posed on a finite interval \begin{equation} u_t+u_x+u_{xxx}+uu_x=0,\qquad u(x,0)=\phi(x), \qquad 00 \qquad (1) \end{equation} subject to the nonhomogeneous boundary conditions, \begin{equation} B_1u=h_1(t), \qquad B_2 u= h_2 (t), \qquad B_3 u= h_3 (t) \qquad t>0 \qquad (2) \end{equation} where \[ B_i u =\sum _{j=0}^2 \left(a_{ij} \partial ^j_x u(0,t) + b_{ij} \partial ^j_x u(L,t)\right), \qquad i=1,2,3,\] and $a_{ij}, \ b_{ij}$ $ (j,i=0, 1,2,3)$ are real constants. Under some general assumptions imposed on the coefficients $a_{ij}, \ b_{ij}$, $ j,i=0, 1,2,3$, the IBVPs (1)-(2) is shown to be locally well-posed in the space $H^s (0,L)$ for any $s\geq 0$ with $\phi \in H^s (0,L)$ and boundary values $h_j, j=1,2,3$ belonging to some appropriate spaces with optimal regularity., Comment: 28 pages

This paper studies the initial-boundary-value problem (IBVP) of a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation posed on a strip domain $\mathbb{R}\times[0,1]$ with non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. For any $s\ge0$, if the initial data $\varphi(x,y)$ is in Sobolev space $H^s(\mathbb{R}\times[0,1])$ and the boundary data $h(x,t)$ is in $$ {\cal H}^s (\mathbb{R} ) = \left \{ h (x, t) \in L^2 ( \mathbb{R}^2 ) \ \big | \ ( 1 + |\lambda | + |\xi|)^{\frac12} ( 1+ |\lambda | + |\xi |^2 )^{\frac{s}{2}}\hat h ( \lambda, \xi ) \in L^2 (\mathbb{R}^2 ) \right \} $$ where $\hat h $ is the Fourier transform of $h$ with respect to $t$ and $ x$, the local well-posedness of the IBVP in $C([0,T]; H^s(\mathbb{R} \times [0,1]))$ is proved. The global well-posedness is also obtained for $s = 1$. The basic idea used here relies on the derivation of an integral operator for the non-homogeneous boundary data and the proof of the series version of Strichartz's estimates for this operator. After the problem is transformed to finding a fixed point of an integral operator, the contraction mapping argument then yields a fixed point using the Strichartz's estimates for initial and boundary operators. The global well-posedness is proved using {\it a-priori} estimates of the solutions.

This paper discusses the initial-boundary-value problems (IBVP) of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations posed in a half plane $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^+$ with nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. For any given $s \ge 0$, if the initial data $\varphi (x, y)$ are in Sobolev space $H^s(\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^+) $ with the boundary data $ h ( x, t) $ in an optimal space ${\cal H}^s(0,T)$ as defined in the introduction, which is slightly weaker than the space $$H^{(2s+1)/4}_{t} ([0, T]; L_x^2(\mathbb{R} ) ) \cap L^2_t ( [ 0, T]; H^{s+ 1/2} _x ( \mathbb{R} ) ),$$ the local well-posedness of the IBVP in $ C ( [0, T] ; H^s ( \mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^+ ) )$ is proved. The global well-posedness is also discussed for $s = 1$. The main idea of the proof is to derive a boundary integral operator for the corresponding nonhomogeneous boundary condition and obtain the Strichartz's estimates for this operator. The results presented in the paper hold for the IBVP posed in a half space $ \mathbb{R}^n\times \mathbb{R}^+$ with any $n>1$.

Constantin and Saut showed in 1988 that solutions of the Cauchy problem for general dispersive equations $$ w_t +iP(D)w=0,\quad w(x,0)=q (x), \quad x\in \mathbb{R}^n, \ t\in \mathbb{R} , $$ enjoy the local smoothing property $$ q\in H^s (\R ^n) \implies w\in L^2 \Big (-T,T; H^{s+\frac{m-1}{2}}_{loc} \left (\R^n\right )\Big ) , $$ where $m$ is the order of the pseudo-differential operator $P(D)$. This property, now called local Kato smoothing, was first discovered by Kato for the KdV equation and implicitly shown later by Sj\"olin for the linear Schr\"odinger equation. In this paper, we show that the local Kato smoothing property possessed by solutions general dispersive equations in the 1D case is sharp, meaning that there exist initial data $q\in H^s \left (\R \right )$ such that the corresponding solution $w$ does not belong to the space $ L^2 \Big (-T,T; H^{s+\frac{m-1}{2} +\epsilon}_{loc} \left (\R\right )\Big )$ for any $\epsilon >0$., Comment: 13 pages

We consider the elliptic-elliptic, focussing Davey-Stewartson equations, which have an explicit bright line soliton solution. The existence of a family of periodic solitons, which have the profile of the line soliton in the longitudinal spatial direction and are periodic in the transverse spatial direction, is established using dynamical systems arguments. We also show that the line soliton is linearly unstable with respect to perturbations in the transverse direction., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1411.2475

This paper is concerned with initial-boundary-value problems (IBVPs) for a class of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations posed either on a half line $\mathbb{R}^+$ or on a bounded interval $(0, L)$ with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. For any $s$ with $0\leq s < 5/2$ and $s \not = 3/2$, it is shown that the relevant IBVPs are locally well-posed if the initial data lie in the $L^2$--based Sobolev spaces $H^s(\mathbb{R}^+) $ in the case of the half line and in $H^s (0, L)$ on a bounded interval, provided the boundary data are selected from $H^{(2s+1)/4}_{loc} (\mathbb{R}^+)$ and $H^{(s+ 1) /2}_{loc} (\mathbb{R}^+)$, respectively. (For $s > \frac12$, compatibility between the initial and boundary conditions is also needed.) Global well-posedness is also discussed when $s \ge 1$. From the point of view of the well-posedness theory, the results obtained reveal a significant difference between the IBVP posed on $\mathbb{R}^+$ and the IBVP posed on $(0,L)$. The former is reminiscent of the theory for the pure initial-value problem (IVP) for these Schr\"odinger equations posed on the whole line $\mathbb{R}$ while the theory on a bounded interval looks more like that othe pure IVP posed on a periodic domain. In particular, the regularity demanded of the boundary data for the IBVP on $\mathbb{R}^+$ is consistent with the temporal trace results that obtain for solutions of the pure IVP on $\mathbb{R}$, while the slightly higher regularity of boundary data for the IBVP on $(0, L)$ resembles what is found for temporal traces of spatially periodic solutions., Comment: This is a revised version

It is well known that the water-wave problem with weak surface tension has small-amplitude line solitary-wave solutions which to leading order are described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. The present paper contains an existence theory for three-dimensional periodically modulated solitary-wave solutions which have a solitary-wave profile in the direction of propagation and are periodic in the transverse direction; they emanate from the line solitary waves in a dimension-breaking bifurcation. In addition, it is shown that the line solitary waves are linearly unstable to long-wavelength transverse perturbations. The key to these results is a formulation of the water wave problem as an evolutionary system in which the transverse horizontal variable plays the role of time, a careful study of the purely imaginary spectrum of the operator obtained by linearising the evolutionary system at a line solitary wave, and an application of an infinite-dimensional version of the classical Lyapunov centre theorem., Comment: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00205-015-0941-3

In this paper we show that the hydrodynamic problem for three-dimensional water waves with strong surface-tension effects admits a fully localised solitary wave which decays to the undisturbed state of the water in every horizontal direction. The proof is based upon the classical variational principle that a solitary wave of this type is a critical point of the energy subject to the constraint that the momentum is fixed. We prove the existence of a minimiser of the energy subject to the constraint that the momentum is fixed and small. The existence of a small-amplitude solitary wave is thus assured, and since the energy and momentum are both conserved quantities a standard argument may be used to establish the stability of the set of minimisers as a whole. `Stability' is however understood in a qualified sense due to the lack of a global well-posedness theory for three-dimensional water waves., Comment: 83 pages, 1 figure

We prove an asymptotic stability result for the water wave equations linearized around small solitary waves. The equations we consider govern irrotational flow of a fluid with constant density bounded below by a rigid horizontal bottom and above by a free surface under the influence of gravity neglecting surface tension. For sufficiently small amplitude waves, with waveform well-approximated by the well-known sech-squared shape of the KdV soliton, solutions of the linearized equations decay at an exponential rate in an energy norm with exponential weight translated with the wave profile. This holds for all solutions with no component in (i.e., symplectically orthogonal to) the two-dimensional neutral-mode space arising from infinitesimal translational and wave-speed variation of solitary waves. We also obtain spectral stability in an unweighted energy norm., Comment: 50 pages, LaTeX with ulem package