# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2009, 25(4): 1229-1247. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2009.25.1229

## Existence and stability of high frequency standing waves for a nonlinear Schrödinger equation

 1 IACS-FSB, Section de Mathématiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Received  November 2008 Revised  April 2009 Published  September 2009

This article is concerned with the existence and orbital stability of standing waves for a nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) with a nonautonomous nonlinearity. It continues and concludes the series of papers [6, 7, 8]. In [6], the authors make use of a continuation argument to establish the existence in $R \times H^1$(RN$)$ of a smooth local branch of solutions to the stationary elliptic problem associated with (NLS) and hence the existence of standing wave solutions of (NLS) with small frequencies. Complementary conditions on the nonlinearity are found, under which either stability of the standing waves and bifurcation of the branch of solutions from the point $(0,0)\in R \times H^1$(RN$)$ occur, or instability and asymptotic bifurcation occur. The main hypotheses in [6] concern the behaviour of the nonlinearity with respect to the space variable at infinity. The paper [7] extends the results of [6] to (NLS) with more general nonlinearities. In [8], the global continuation of the local branch obtained in [6] is proved under additional hypotheses on the nonlinearity. In particular, spherical symmetry with respect to the space variable is assumed. The aim of the present work is to prove the existence and discuss the orbital stability of standing waves with high frequencies, independently of the results obtained in [6] and [8]. The main hypotheses now concern the behaviour of the nonlinearity with respect to the space variable around the origin. The methods are the same in spirit as that of [6] and permit to discuss the asymptotic behaviour of the global branch of solutions obtained in [8].
Citation: François Genoud. Existence and stability of high frequency standing waves for a nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2009, 25 (4) : 1229-1247. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2009.25.1229
 [1] Rui Hu, Yuan Yuan. Stability, bifurcation analysis in a neural network model with delay and diffusion. Conference Publications, 2009, 2009 (Special) : 367-376. doi: 10.3934/proc.2009.2009.367 [2] Dmitry Treschev. Travelling waves in FPU lattices. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2004, 11 (4) : 867-880. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2004.11.867 [3] Rafael Luís, Sandra Mendonça. A note on global stability in the periodic logistic map. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2020, 25 (11) : 4211-4220. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020094 [4] Lakmi Niwanthi Wadippuli, Ivan Gudoshnikov, Oleg Makarenkov. Global asymptotic stability of nonconvex sweeping processes. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2020, 25 (3) : 1129-1139. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019212 [5] Michael Grinfeld, Amy Novick-Cohen. Some remarks on stability for a phase field model with memory. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2006, 15 (4) : 1089-1117. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2006.15.1089 [6] Guo-Bao Zhang, Ruyun Ma, Xue-Shi Li. Traveling waves of a Lotka-Volterra strong competition system with nonlocal dispersal. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2018, 23 (2) : 587-608. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2018035 [7] Pascal Noble, Sebastien Travadel. Non-persistence of roll-waves under viscous perturbations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2001, 1 (1) : 61-70. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2001.1.61 [8] Gloria Paoli, Gianpaolo Piscitelli, Rossanno Sannipoli. A stability result for the Steklov Laplacian Eigenvalue Problem with a spherical obstacle. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2021, 20 (1) : 145-158. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2020261 [9] Tomáš Roubíček. An energy-conserving time-discretisation scheme for poroelastic media with phase-field fracture emitting waves and heat. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2017, 10 (4) : 867-893. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2017044 [10] José Raúl Quintero, Juan Carlos Muñoz Grajales. On the existence and computation of periodic travelling waves for a 2D water wave model. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (2) : 557-578. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018030 [11] Zhi-Min Chen, Philip A. Wilson. Stability of oscillatory gravity wave trains with energy dissipation and Benjamin-Feir instability. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2012, 17 (7) : 2329-2341. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.2329

2019 Impact Factor: 1.338