We study localized light bullets and X waves in quadratic media and show how the notion of nonlocality can provide an alternative simple physical picture of both types of multidimensional nonlinear waves. For X waves we show that a local cascading limit in terms of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation does not exist-one needs to use the nonlocal description, because the nonlocal response function d...

We study the inverse scattering problem for the three dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the Yukawa potential. The nonlinearity of the equation is nonlocal. We reconstruct the potential and the nonlinearity by the knowledge of the scattering states. Our result is applicable to reconstructing the nonlinearity of the semi-relativistic Hartree equation.

An infinite sequence of commuting nonpolynomial contact symmetries of the two-dimensional minimal surface equation is constructed. Local and nonlocal conservation laws for n-dimensional minimal area surface equation are obtained by using the Noether identity. Introduction. In this paper, we analyze the symmetry properties of the Euler equation

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the nonlocal operator ut(x, t) = (−1) n−1 (J ∗ Id − 1)n (u(x, t)), x ∈ R which is the nonlocal analogous to the higher order local evolution equation vt = (−1)(∆)v. We prove that solutions to both equations have the same asymptotic decay rate as t goes to infinity. Moreover, we prove that the solutions of the nonlocal problem conver...

We investigate the properties of localized waves in cubic nonlinear materials with a symmetric nonlocal nonlinear response of arbitrary shape and degree of nonlocality, described by a general nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger type equation. We prove rigorously by bounding the Hamiltonian that nonlocality of the nonlinearity prevents collapse in, e.g., Bose-Einstein condensates and optical Kerr med...

The goal of this paper is to obtain the regularity and the existence of solutions of a retarded semilinear differential equation with nonlocal condition by applying Schauder’s fixed point theorem. We construct the fundamental solution, establish the Hölder continuity results concerning the fundamental solution of its corresponding retarded linear equation, and prove the uniqueness of solutions ...

Nonlocal problems for hyperbolic equations of the first order describe the dynamic of population [1]–[3]. During the last thirty years the existence and uniqueness of the solution of nonlocal problems for the system of hyperbolic equations have been considered in a number of papers [4]–[8]. The authors assumed that the nonlinear functions satisfy the Lipschitz condition with respect to the unkn...

It has been suggested that for fluids in which the rate of strain varies appreciably over length scales of the order of the intermolecular interaction range, the viscosity must be treated as a nonlocal property of the fluid. The shear stress can then be postulated to be a convolution of this nonlocal viscosity kernel with the strain rate over all space. In this Letter, we confirm that this post...

We study a singular perturbation problem for a nonlocal evolution operator. The problem appears in the analysis of the propagation of flames in the high activation energy limit, when admitting nonlocal effects. We obtain uniform estimates and we show that, under suitable assumptions, limits are solutions to a free boundary problem in a viscosity sense and in a pointwise sense at regular free bo...

A mathematical theory of time-dependent dislocation mechanics of unrestricted geometric and material nonlinearity is reviewed. Within a ‘small deformation’ setting, a suite of simplified, but interesting, models, namely a nonlocal Ginzburg Landau, a nonlocal level set, and a nonlocal generalized Burgers equation are derived. In the finite deformation setting, it is shown that an additive decomp...