NLS bifurcations on the bowtie combinatorial graph and the dumbbell metric graph

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2019

Abstract

We consider the bifurcations of standing wave solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) posed on a quantum graph consisting of two loops connected by a single edge, the so-called dumbbell, recently studied in [27]. The authors of that study found the ground state undergoes two bifurcations, first a symmetry-breaking, and the second which they call a symmetry-preserving bifurcation. We clarify the type of the symmetry-preserving bifurcation, showing it to be transcritical. We then reduce the question, and show that the phenomena described in that paper can be reproduced in a simple discrete self-trapping equation on a combinatorial graph of bowtie shape. This allows for complete analysis by parameterizing the full solution space. We then expand the question, and describe the bifurcations of all the standing waves of this system, which can be classified into three families, and of which there exists a countably infinite set.

Identifier

85061315487 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series A

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2019093

e-ISSN

15535231

ISSN

10780947

First Page

2203

Last Page

2232

Volume

39

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