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Necessary conditions for breathers on continuous media to approximate breathers on discrete lattices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

WARREN R. SMITH  and
JONATHAN A. D. WATTIS
WARREN R. SMITH
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK email: W.Smith@bham.ac.uk
JONATHAN A. D. WATTIS
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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Abstract

The sine-Gordon (SG) partial differential equation (PDE) with an arbitrary perturbation is initially considered. Using the method of Kuzmak–Luke, we investigate the conditions, which the perturbation must satisfy, for a breather solution to be a valid leading-order asymptotic approximation to the perturbed problem. We analyse the cases of both stationary and moving breathers. As examples, we consider perturbing terms which include typical linear damping, periodic sinusoidal driving, and dispersion. The motivation for this study is that the mathematical modelling of physical systems often leads to the discrete SG system of ordinary differential equations, which are then approximated in the long wavelength limit by the continuous SG PDE. Such limits typically produce fourth-order spatial derivatives as correction terms. The new results show that the stationary breather solution is a consistent solution of both the quasi-continuum SG equation and the forced/damped SG system. However, the moving breather is only a consistent solution of the quasi-continuum SG equation and not the damped SG system.

Keywords

singular perturbationsbreatherssine-Gordon equation
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Papers
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European Journal of Applied Mathematics , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 23 - 41
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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