In this paper we deal with two dimensional cubic Dirac equations appearing as effective model in gapped honeycomb structures. We give a formal derivation starting from cubic Schrodinger equations and prove the existence of standing waves bifurcating from one band-edge of the linear spectrum.
We consider the stability problem for standing waves of nonlinear Dirac models. Under a suitable definition of linear stability, and under some restriction on the spectrum, we prove at the same time orbital and asymptotic stability. We are not able t
o get the full result proved by Cuccagna for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, because of the strong indefiniteness of the energy.
Continuing a line of investigation initiated in [11] exploring the connections between Jost and Evans functions and (modified) Fredholm determinants of Birman-Schwinger type integral operators, we here examine the stability index, or sign of the firs
t nonvanishing derivative at frequency zero of the characteristic determinant, an object that has found considerable use in the study by Evans function techniques of stability of standing and traveling wave solutions of partial differential equations (PDE) in one dimension. This leads us to the derivation of general perturbation expansions for analytically-varying modified Fredholm determinants of abstract operators. Our main conclusion, similarly in the analysis of the determinant itself, is that the derivative of the characteristic Fredholm determinant may be efficiently computed from first principles for integral operators with semi-separable integral kernels, which include in particular the general one-dimensional case, and for sums thereof, which latter possibility appears to offer applications in the multi-dimensional case. A second main result is to show that the multi-dimensional characteristic Fredholm determinant is the renormalized limit of a sequence of Evans functions defined in [23] on successive Galerkin subspaces, giving a natural extension of the one-dimensional results of [11] and answering a question of [27] whether this sequence might possibly converge (in general, no, but with renormalization, yes). Convergence is useful in practice for numerical error control and acceleration.
We consider nonlinear half-wave equations with focusing power-type nonlinearity $$ i pt_t u = sqrt{-Delta} , u - |u|^{p-1} u, quad mbox{with $(t,x) in R times R^d$} $$ with exponents $1 < p < infty$ for $d=1$ and $1 < p < (d+1)/(d-1)$ for $d geq 2$.
We study traveling solitary waves of the form $$ u(t,x) = e^{iomega t} Q_v(x-vt) $$ with frequency $omega in R$, velocity $v in R^d$, and some finite-energy profile $Q_v in H^{1/2}(R^d)$, $Q_v ot equiv 0$. We prove that traveling solitary waves for speeds $|v| geq 1$ do not exist. Furthermore, we generalize the non-existence result to the square root Klein--Gordon operator $sqrt{-DD+m^2}$ and other nonlinearities. As a second main result, we show that small data scattering fails to hold for the focusing half-wave equation in any space dimension. The proof is based on the existence and properties of traveling solitary waves for speeds $|v| < 1$. Finally, we discuss the energy-critical case when $p=(d+1)/(d-1)$ in dimensions $d geq 2$.
In this paper, we use Dafermos-Rodnianskis new vector field method to study the asymptotic pointwise decay properties for solutions of energy subcritical defocusing semilinear wave equations in $mathbb{R}^{1+3}$. We prove that the solution decays as
quickly as linear waves for $p>frac{1+sqrt{17}}{2}$, covering part of the sub-conformal case, while for the range $2<pleq frac{1+sqrt{17}}{2}$, the solution still decays with rate at least $t^{-frac{1}{3}}$. As a consequence, the solution scatters in energy space when $p>2.3542$. We also show that the solution is uniformly bounded when $p>frac{3}{2}$.