The laminations of a crystal near an anti-continuum limit

V. Knibbeler, B. Mramor, B.W. Rink

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Abstract

The anti-continuum limit of a monotone variational recurrence relation consists of a lattice of uncoupled particles in a periodic background. This limit supports many trivial equilibrium states that persist as solutions of the model with small coupling. We investigate when a persisting solution generates a so-called lamination and prove that near the anti-continuum limit the collection of laminations of solutions is homeomorphic to the (N1)-dimensional simplex, with N the number of distinct local minima of the background potential. This generalizes a result by Baesens and MacKay on twist maps near an anti-integrable limit. © 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd & London Mathematical Society.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)927-952
JournalNonlinearity
Volume27
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

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