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Standing waves on a flower graph.
- Source :
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Journal of Differential Equations . Jan2021, Vol. 271, p719-763. 45p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- A flower graph consists of a half line and N symmetric loops connected at a single vertex with N ≥ 2 (it is called the tadpole graph if N = 1). We consider positive single-lobe states on the flower graph in the framework of the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The main novelty of our paper is a rigorous application of the period function for second-order differential equations towards understanding the symmetries and bifurcations of standing waves on metric graphs. We show that the positive single-lobe symmetric state (which is the ground state of energy for small fixed mass) undergoes exactly one bifurcation for larger mass, at which point (N − 1) branches of other positive single-lobe states appear: each branch has K larger components and (N − K) smaller components, where 1 ≤ K ≤ N − 1. We show that only the branch with K = 1 represents a local minimizer of energy for large fixed mass, however, the ground state of energy is not attained for large fixed mass if N ≥ 2. Analytical results obtained from the period function are illustrated numerically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00220396
- Volume :
- 271
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Differential Equations
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 146911245
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2020.09.010