Demonstration of the stability or instability of multibreathers at low coupling

Whereas there exists a mathematical proof for one-site breathers stability, and an unpublished one for two-site breathers, the methods for determining the stability properties of multibreathers rely on numerical computation of the Floquet multipliers or on the weak nonlinearity approximation leading...

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Autores: Archilla, Juan F. R., Cuevas-Maraver, Jesús, Sánchez-Rey, Bernardo, Romero Romero, Francisco
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/24534
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/24534
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2789(03)00064-2
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Discrete breathers
Multibreathers
Intrinsic localized modes
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Sumario:Whereas there exists a mathematical proof for one-site breathers stability, and an unpublished one for two-site breathers, the methods for determining the stability properties of multibreathers rely on numerical computation of the Floquet multipliers or on the weak nonlinearity approximation leading to discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Here we present a set of multibreather stability theorems (MST) that provides a simple method to determine multibreathers stability in Klein–Gordon systems. These theorems are based in the application of degenerate perturbation theory to Aubry’s band theory. We illustrate them with several examples.