Stationary modes and integrals of motion in nonlinear lattices with PT-symmetric linear part (1306.5286v2)

Abstract: We consider finite-dimensional nonlinear systems with linear part described by a parity-time (PT-) symmetric operator. We investigate bifurcations of stationary nonlinear modes from the eigenstates of the linear operator and consider a class of PT-symmetric nonlinearities allowing for existence of the families of nonlinear modes. We pay particular attention to the situations when the underlying linear PT-symmetric operator is characterized by the presence of degenerate eigenvalues or exceptional-point singularity. In each of the cases we construct formal expansions for small-amplitude nonlinear modes. We also report a class of nonlinearities allowing for the system to admit one or several integrals of motion, which turn out to be determined by the pseudo-Hermiticity of the nonlinear operator.