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Normal form for travelling kinks in discrete Klein-Gordon lattices
We study travelling kinks in the spatial discretizations of the nonlinear
Klein--Gordon equation, which include the discrete lattice and the
discrete sine--Gordon lattice. The differential advance-delay equation for
travelling kinks is reduced to the normal form, a scalar fourth-order
differential equation, near the quadruple zero eigenvalue. We show numerically
non-existence of monotonic kinks (heteroclinic orbits between adjacent
equilibrium points) in the fourth-order equation. Making generic assumptions on
the reduced fourth-order equation, we prove the persistence of bounded
solutions (heteroclinic connections between periodic solutions near adjacent
equilibrium points) in the full differential advanced-delay equation with the
technique of center manifold reduction. Existence and persistence of multiple
kinks in the discrete sine--Gordon equation are discussed in connection to
recent numerical results of \cite{ACR03} and results of our normal form
analysis
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