Travelling waves in FPU lattices

Pages: 867 - 880, Volume 11, Issue 4, December 2004

doi:10.3934/dcds.2004.11.867       Abstract        Full Text (207.5K)       Related Articles

Dmitry Treschev - Department of Mathematics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russian Federation (email)

Abstract: Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice is a classical mechanical system of an infinite number of discrete particles on a line. Each particle is assumed to interact with the nearest left and right neighbors only. We construct travelling waves in the system assuming that the potential has a singularity at zero. The waves appear near the hard ball limit.

Keywords:  Semigroups, integrated semigroups, growth bounds, eventual and essential compactness, asynchronous exponential growth.
Mathematics Subject Classification:  37K60.

Received: March 2003;      Revised: January 2004;      Published: September 2004.