Existence of exponentially spatially localised breather solutions for lattices of nonlinearly coupled particles: Schauder's fixed point theorem approach

Abstract: The problem of showing the existence of localised modes in nonlinear lattices has attracted considerable efforts from the physical but also from the mathematical viewpoint where a rich variety of methods has been employed. In this paper we prove that a fixed point theory approach based on the celebrated Schauder's Fixed Point Theorem may provide a general method to establish concisely not only the existence of localised structures but also a required rate of spatial localisation. As a case study we consider lattices of coupled particles with nonlinear nearest neighbour interaction and prove the existence of exponentially spatially localised breathers exhibiting either even-parity or odd-parity symmetry under necessary non-resonant conditions accompanied with the proof of energy bounds of the solutions.