Space-modulated Stability and Averaged Dynamics

In this brief note we give a brief overview of the comprehensive theory, recently obtained by the author jointly with Johnson, Noble and Zumbrun, that describes the nonlinear dynamics about spectrally stable periodic waves of parabolic systems and announce parallel results for the linearized dynamics near cnoidal waves of the Korteweg-de Vries equation. The latter are expected to contribute to the development of a dispersive theory, still to come.Comment: Proceedings of the "Journ\'ees \'Equations aux d\'eriv\'ees partielles", Roscoff 201

Two novel classes of solvable many-body problems of goldfish type with constraints

Two novel classes of many-body models with nonlinear interactions "of goldfish type" are introduced. They are solvable provided the initial data satisfy a single constraint (in one case; in the other, two constraints): i. e., for such initial data the solution of their initial-value problem can be achieved via algebraic operations, such as finding the eigenvalues of given matrices or equivalently the zeros of known polynomials. Entirely isochronous versions of some of these models are also exhibited: i.e., versions of these models whose nonsingular solutions are all completely periodic with the same period.Comment: 30 pages, 2 figure

Traveling waves of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation including higher order dispersions

The solitary wave solution and periodic solutions expressed in terms of elliptic Jacobi's functions are obtained for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation governing the propagation of pulses in optical fibers including the effects of second, third and fourth order dispersion. The approach is based on the reduction of the generalized nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation to an ordinary nonlinear differential equation. The periodic solutions obtained form one-parameter family which depend on an integration constant $p$. The solitary wave solution with ${\rm sech}^2$ shape is the limiting case of this family with $p=0$. The solutions obtained describe also a train of soliton-like pulses with ${\rm sech}^2$ shape. It is shown that the bounded solutions arise only for special domains of integration constant.Comment: We consider in this paper also the case with negative parameter $\gamma$ (defocusing nonlinearity

Global entrainment of transcriptional systems to periodic inputs

This paper addresses the problem of giving conditions for transcriptional systems to be globally entrained to external periodic inputs. By using contraction theory, a powerful tool from dynamical systems theory, it is shown that certain systems driven by external periodic signals have the property that all solutions converge to a fixed limit cycle. General results are proved, and the properties are verified in the specific case of some models of transcriptional systems. The basic mathematical results needed from contraction theory are proved in the paper, making it self-contained

Zero-Hopf bifurcation in the FitzHugh-Nagumo system

We characterize the values of the parameters for which a zero--Hopf equilibrium point takes place at the singular points, namely, $O$ (the origin), $P_+$ and $P_-$ in the FitzHugh-Nagumo system. Thus we find two $2$--parameter families of the FitzHugh-Nagumo system for which the equilibrium point at the origin is a zero-Hopf equilibrium. For these two families we prove the existence of a periodic orbit bifurcating from the zero--Hopf equilibrium point $O$. We prove that exist three $2$--parameter families of the FitzHugh-Nagumo system for which the equilibrium point at $P_+$ and $P_-$ is a zero-Hopf equilibrium point. For one of these families we prove the existence of $1$, or $2$, or $3$ periodic orbits borning at $P_+$ and $P_-$