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B A Malomed1, T Wagenknecht, A R Champneys
1Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. malomed@eng.tau.ac.il
Abstract:
Previous numerical studies have revealed the existence of embedded solitons (ESs) in a class of multiwave systems with quadratic nonlinearity, families of which seem to emerge from a critical point in the parameter space, where the zero solution has a fourfold zero eigenvalue. In this paper, the existence of such solutions is studied in a three-wave model. An appropriate rescaling casts the system in a normal form, which is universal for models supporting ESs through quadratic nonlinearities. The normal-form system contains a single irreducible parameter epsilon, and is tantamount to the basic model of type-I second-harmonic generation. An analytical approximation of Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin type yields an asymptotic formula for the distribution of discrete values of epsilon at which the ESs exist. Comparison with numerical results shows that the asymptotic formula yields an exact value of the scaling index, -65, and a fairly good approximation for the numerical factor in front of the scaling term.
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