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Connected Sets in Global Bifurcation Theory

This book explores the topological properties of connected and path-connected solution sets for nonlinear equations in Banach spaces, focusing on the distinction between these concepts. Building on Rabinowitz's dichotomy and classical results on Peano cont ...

Springer Science and Business Media B.V.2025

Heteroclinic orbits for a system of amplitude equations for orthogonal domain walls

Boris Buffoni

Using a variational method, we prove the existence of heteroclinic solutions for a 6-dimensional system of ordinary differential equations. We derive this system from the classical Benard-Rayleigh problem near the convective instability threshold. The cons ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Fully Localised Three-Dimensional Gravity-Capillary Solitary Waves on Water of Infinite Depth

Boris Buffoni

Fully localised three-dimensional solitary waves are steady water waves which are evanescent in every horizontal direction. Existence theories for fully localised three-dimensional solitary waves on water of finite depth have recently been published, and i ...

SPRINGER BASEL AG2022

Travelling heteroclinic waves in a Frenkel-Kontorova chain with anharmonic on-site potential

Boris Buffoni

The Frenkel-Kontorova model for dislocation dynamics from 1938 is given by a chain of atoms, where neighbouring atoms interact through a linear spring and are exposed to a smooth periodic on-site potential. A dislocation moving with constant speed correspo ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Steady Three-Dimensional Rotational Flows: An Approach Via Two Stream Functions And Nash-Moser Iteration

Boris Buffoni

We consider the stationary flow of an inviscid and incompressible fluid of constant density in the region D = (0, L) x R-2. We are concerned with flows that are periodic in the second and third variables and that have prescribed flux through each point of ...

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE PUBL2019

A Variational Reduction and the Existence of a Fully Localised Solitary Wave for the Three-Dimensional Water-Wave Problem with Weak Surface Tension

Boris Buffoni

2018

Existence and conditional energetic stability of three-dimensional fully localised solitary gravity-capillary water waves

Boris Buffoni

In this paper we show that the hydrodynamic problem for three-dimensional water waves with strong surface-tension effects admits a fully localised solitary wave which decays to the undisturbed state of the water in every horizontal direction. The proof is ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2013

On the stability of travelling waves with vorticity obtained by minimization

Boris Buffoni

We modify the approach of Burton and Toland Comm. Pure Appl. Math. LXIV. 975-1007 (2011) to show the existence of periodic surface water waves with vorticity in order that it becomes suited to a stability analysis. This is achieved by enlarging the functio ...

Springer Basel2013

Generalized Flows Satisfying Spatial Boundary Conditions

Boris Buffoni

In a region D in R-2 or R-3, the classical Euler equation for the regular motion of an inviscid and incompressible fluid of constant density is given by partial derivative(t)v + (v . del(x))v = -del(xP), div(x)v = 0, where v(t, x) is the velocity of the pa ...

Birkhäuser-Verlag, Springer2012

Bifurcation Analysis at a Singular Soliton State in Fiber Couplers

Boris Buffoni

The system {-u '' + u = u(3) + lambda v, u(x)= u(-x) is an element of R, x is an element of R, -v '' + v = v(3) + lambda u, v(x) = v(-x) is an element of R, x is an element of R, describes pulses in nonlinear fiber couplers. It has the family (U1+lambda, - ...

Advanced Nonlinear Studies, Inc2012