Nonlinear Waves and Microlocal Analysis
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01/31 3:00pm |
BLOC 624 | Dean Baskin Texas A&M University |
The Feynman propagator in a model singular setting
I will describe a global construction of the Feynman propagator for the wave equation with an inverse square potential on Minkowski space as well as its asymptotic behavior near infinity. |
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02/28 3:00pm |
BLOC 624 | Andrew Comech Texas A&M University |
Numerical results on the spectral (linear) stability of solitary waves in cubic nonlinear Dirac equation in (3+1)D
This is a follow-up on the previous talk on the radial reduction for the operator of linearization at one- and bi-frequency solitary wave solutions to the nonlinear Dirac equation in three spatial dimensions. The radial reduction allows one to compute the spectrum of the linearization operator numerically; we will analyze the resulting numerical data obtained by Jesús Cuevas-Maraver. While the solitary waves in the Dirac equation with cubic nonlinearity are unstable in the nonrelativistic limit (small amplitude solitary waves with frequency \omega near m), we discover that there is large interval of frequencies, \omega\in(0.254,0.936), for which solitary waves -- both one- and bi-frequency ones -- are spectrally stable.
This is a joint research with Nabile Boussaid, Jesús Cuevas-Maraver, and Niranjana Kulkarni, based on the preprint "Stable bi-frequency spinor modes as Dark Matter candidates", https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04027 |
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04/11 1:50pm |
BLOC 302 | Jonas Luhrmann | Asymptotic stability of kinks outside symmetry
We consider scalar field theories on the line with Ginzburg-Landau (double-well) self-interaction potentials. Prime examples include the \phi^4 model and the sine-Gordon model. These models feature simple examples of topological solitons called kinks. The study of their asymptotic stability leads to a rich class of problems owing to the combination of weak dispersion in one space dimension, low power nonlinearities, and intriguing spectral features of the linearized operators such as threshold resonances or internal modes.
We present a perturbative proof of the full asymptotic stability of the sine-Gordon kink outside symmetry under small perturbations in weighted Sobolev norms. The strategy of our proof combines a space-time resonances approach based on the distorted Fourier transform to capture modified scattering effects with modulation techniques to take into account the invariance under Lorentz transformations and under spatial translations. A major difficulty is the slow local decay of the radiation term caused by the threshold resonances of the non-selfadjoint linearized matrix operator around the modulated kink. Our analysis hinges on two remarkable null structures that we uncover in the quadratic nonlinearities of the evolution equation for the radiation term as well as of the modulation equations.
The entire framework of our proof, including the systematic development of the distorted Fourier theory, is not specific to the sine-Gordon model and extends to many other asymptotic stability problems for moving kinks and other Klein-Gordon solitons. We conclude with a discussion of potential applications in the generic setting (no threshold resonances) and with a discussion of the outstanding challenges posed by internal modes such as in the well-known \phi^4 model.
This is joint work with Gong Chen (GeorgiaTech). |
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04/25 3:00pm |
BLOC624 | Efstathios (Stathis) Charalampidis SDSU |
From Nonlinear Optics to Atomic Physics, From Rogue Waves to Collapse: Adventures in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Complex systems are ubiquitous in nature and human-designed environments. The overarching goal of our research is to leverage advanced computational methods with fundamental theoretical analysis to model the nonlinear behavior of systems that are not otherwise amenable to integrable systems techniques. Examples include: Studies of superfluidity and superconductivity in ultra-cold atomic physics (e.g., Bose-Einstein condensation), extreme and rare events (e.g., tsunamis and rogue waves), and collapse phenomena in optics (e.g., light propagation through a medium without diffraction). We have developed computational methods for bifurcation analysis that explain the structure of the parameter space of these systems and continuation methods (pseudo-arclength and Deflated Continuation Method (DCM)) for efficient tracking of solution branches and connecting them to physical observations. The objective is to enable technological innovations, such as the discovery of new materials and development of devices for precision measurements (e.g., interferometers), or to predict extreme phenomena based on the features of the eigenvalue spectra of the system.
In this talk, we will present a wide pallete of results that were obtained by using the developed computational methods. Specifically, inconspicuous solutions of the Nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation were discovered by developing DCM specifically for NLS to uncover previously unknown behavior and weakly nonlinear unstable solutions that are potential targets for experimental verification. Furthermore, a novel Kuznetsov-Ma breather (time-periodic) solution to the discrete and non-integrable NLS equation relevant to predicting periodic extreme and rare events in optical systems was discovered by employing pseudo-arclength continuation. The combination of perturbation methods with pseudo-arclength continuation enabled the elucidation of collapsing waveforms associated with the 1D focusing NLS and Korteweg-de Vries equations. Future research will focus on the development o |