We study the interaction of a ground state with a class of trapping potentials. We track the precise asymptotic behavior of the solution if the interaction is weak, either because the ground state moves away from the potential or is very fast.
We consider a nonlinear Klein Gordon equation (NLKG) with short range potential with eigenvalues and show that in the contest of complex valued solutions the small standing waves are attractors for small solutions of the NLKG. This extends the results already known for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation and for the nonlinear Dirac equation. In addition, this extends a result of Bambusi and Cuccagna (which in turn was an extension of a result by Soffer and Weinstein) which considered only real valued solutions of the NLKG.
We consider a Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation with a very general non linear term and with a trapping $delta $ potential on the line. We then discuss the asymptotic behavior of all its small solutions, generalizing a recent result by Masaki et al. We give also a result of dispersion in the case of defocusing equations with a non--trapping delta potential.
It is well known that when the geometry and/or coefficients allow stable trapped rays, the outgoing solution operator of the Helmholtz equation (a.k.a. the resolvent of the Laplacian) grows exponentially through a sequence of real frequencies tending to infinity. In this paper we show that, even in the presence of the strongest-possible trapping, if a set of frequencies of arbitrarily small measure is excluded, the Helmholtz solution operator grows at most polynomially as the frequency tends to infinity. One significant application of this result is in the convergence analysis of several numerical methods for solving the Helmholtz equation at high frequency that are based on a polynomial-growth assumption on the solution operator (e.g. $hp$-finite elements, $hp$-boundary elements, certain multiscale methods). The result of this paper shows that this assumption holds, even in the presence of the strongest-possible trapping, for most frequencies.
We study the dynamics and interaction of two swimming bacteria, modeled by self-propelled dumbbell-type structures. We focus on alignment dynamics of a coplanar pair of elongated swimmers, which propel themselves either by pushing or pulling both in three- and quasi-two-dimensional geometries of space. We derive asymptotic expressions for the dynamics of the pair, which, complemented by numerical experiments, indicate that the tendency of bacteria to swim in or swim off depends strongly on the position of the propulsion force. In particular, we observe that positioning of the effective propulsion force inside the dumbbell results in qualitative agreement with the dynamics observed in experiments, such as mutual alignment of converging bacteria.
Joining together virial inequalities by Kowalczyk, Martel and Munoz and Kowalczyk, Martel, Munoz and Van Den Bosch with our theory on how to derive nonlinear induced dissipation on discrete modes, and in particular the notion of Refined Profile, we show how to extend the theory by Kowalczyk, Martel, Munoz and Van Den Bosch to the case when there is a large number of discrete modes in the cubic NLS with a trapping potential which is associate to a repulsive potential by a series of Darboux transformations. This a simpler model than the kink stability for wave equations, but is still a classical one and retains some of the main difficulties.