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4. Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Controlled Differential Systems
Can one find all coherent structures supported by a nonlinear wave equation?
Eduard-Wilhelm Kirr
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Abstract:
I will present a new mathematical technique aimed at discovering all coherent
structures supported by a given nonlinear wave equation. It relies on global
bifurcation analysis which shows that, inside the Fredholm domain,
the coherent structures organize themselves in in manifolds which either
form closed surfaces or must reach the boundary of this domain. I will
show how one can find all the limit points at the Fredholm boundary for
the particular case of Nonlinear Schrödinger/Gross-Pitaevskii Equation
and use these limit points to find all coherent structures and their bifurcation points.