Asymptotics of the solitary waves for the generalised Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations

We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the localised solitary waves for the generalised Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations. In particular, we compute their first order asymptotics in any dimension $N \geq 2$

Smooth travelling-wave solutions to the inviscid surface quasi-geostrophic equation

We construct families of smooth travelling-wave solutions to the inviscid surface quasi-geostrophic equation (SQG). These solutions can be viewed as the equivalents for this equation of the vortex anti-vortex pairs in the context of the incompressible Euler equation. Our argument relies on the stream function formulation and eventually amounts to solving a fractional nonlinear elliptic equation by variational methods

Existence and properties of travelling waves for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation

This paper presents recent results concerning the existence and qualitative properties of travelling wave solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation posed on the whole space R^N. Unlike the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with null condition at infinity, the presence of non-zero conditions at infinity yields a rather rich and delicate dynamics. We focus on the case N = 2 and N = 3, and also briefly review some classical results on the one-dimensional case. The works we survey provide rigorous justifications to the impressive series of results which Jones, Putterman and Roberts established by formal and numerical arguments

On the Korteweg-de Vries long-wave approximation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation I

The fact that the Korteweg-de-Vries equation offers a good approximation of long-wave solutions of small amplitude to the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation was derived several years ago in the physical literature. In this paper, we provide a rigorous proof of this fact, and compute a precise estimate for the error term. Our proof relies on the integrability of both the equations. In particular, we give a relation between the invariants of the two equations, which, we hope, is of independent interest.Comment: Final version accepted for publication in International Mathematics Research Notices with a few minor corrections and added remark

Stabilité des solitons de l'équation de Landau-Lifshitz à anisotropie planaire

Séminaire Laurent Schwartz - EDP et applicationsCet exposé présente plusieurs résultats récents quant à la stabilité des solitons sombres de l'équation de Landau-Lifshitz à anisotropie planaire, en particulier, quant à la stabilité orbitale des trains (bien préparés) de solitons gris et à la stabilité asymptotique de ces mêmes solitons