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Effects of treated water with neodymium magnets (NdFeB) on growth characteristics of pepper (Capsicum annuum)

  • This study was conducted to investigate the effect of magnetic water treatment on growth characteristics of pepper (Capsicum annuum) plants. One week old pepper plants were selected and divided into four groups in a complete randomized design. In our study, we took normal tap water and divided it into four parts. The first group received given non-magnetically treated water (as a control), while the remaining groups received magnetized water at 3, 6, and 9 magnets, respectively. Four pipes and 18 permanent magnets with a flux density of 70 mT were used for this system. The results of the current study showed that magnetized water caused significant increases in all studied parameters, except plant length and dry weight, when compared to non-magnetized water. The results revealed that magnetizing water with 6 magnets was effective than others in increasing the number of fruits and leaves per plant, whereas magnetizing water with 9 magnets was effective than others in increasing the fresh weight of produces fruits. The impact of magnetic water treatment depends on the number of magnets used to magnetizing water. It appears that the utilization of magnetically treated water can lead to improving the quantity and quality of pepper fruits. Therefore, applying magnetized water could be one of the most promising ways to enhance agricultural production in an environmentally friendly way.

    Citation: Etimad Alattar, Khitam Alwasife, Eqbal Radwan. Effects of treated water with neodymium magnets (NdFeB) on growth characteristics of pepper (Capsicum annuum)[J]. AIMS Biophysics, 2020, 7(4): 267-290. doi: 10.3934/biophy.2020021

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  • This study was conducted to investigate the effect of magnetic water treatment on growth characteristics of pepper (Capsicum annuum) plants. One week old pepper plants were selected and divided into four groups in a complete randomized design. In our study, we took normal tap water and divided it into four parts. The first group received given non-magnetically treated water (as a control), while the remaining groups received magnetized water at 3, 6, and 9 magnets, respectively. Four pipes and 18 permanent magnets with a flux density of 70 mT were used for this system. The results of the current study showed that magnetized water caused significant increases in all studied parameters, except plant length and dry weight, when compared to non-magnetized water. The results revealed that magnetizing water with 6 magnets was effective than others in increasing the number of fruits and leaves per plant, whereas magnetizing water with 9 magnets was effective than others in increasing the fresh weight of produces fruits. The impact of magnetic water treatment depends on the number of magnets used to magnetizing water. It appears that the utilization of magnetically treated water can lead to improving the quantity and quality of pepper fruits. Therefore, applying magnetized water could be one of the most promising ways to enhance agricultural production in an environmentally friendly way.


    Peridynamics is a modern branch of solid mechanics and materials science, which models the physical interactions in a material continuum not by partial differential equations but in terms of nonlocal integro-differential equations, see [40,42] for an introduction and overview. The simplest dynamical model for a spatially one-dimensional and infinitely extended medium is

    2tu(t,y)=+f(u(t,y+ξ)u(t,y),ξ)dξ (1.1)

    with time t>0, material space coordinate yR, bond variable ξR, and scalar displacement field u. The elastic force function f is usually supposed to satisfy Newton's third law of motion via

    f(r,ξ)=f(r,ξ) (1.2)

    so that (1.1) can equivalently be written as

    2tu(t,y)=0f(u(t,y+ξ)u(t,y),ξ)f(u(t,y)u(t,yξ),ξ)dξ. (1.3)

    The symmetry condition (1.2) further ensures that (1.3) admits both a Lagrangian and Hamiltonian structure and can hence be regarded as a nonlocal wave equation without dissipation, see also §3. For energetic considerations it is also useful to write

    f(r,ξ)=rΨ(r,ξ),

    where the micro-potential Ψ(r,ξ) quantifies the contribution to the potential energy coming from the elastic deformation of the bond ξ. The corresponding energy density is given by

    e(t,y)=12(tu(t,y))2+0Ψ(u(t,y+ξ)u(t,y),ξ)dξ

    and the total energy is conserved according to ddt+e(t,y)dy=0.

    Peridynamics and lattice models In this paper we focus on two particular settings. In the simplified continuous-coupling case we have

    Ψ(r,ξ)=α(ξ)Φ(β(ξ)r) (1.4)

    with smooth reference potential Φ:RR and scaling coefficients provided by two sufficiently regular functions α,β:R+R+. This is a typical choice in peridynamics and [41] proposes for instance

    a(ξ)=χ[0,H](ξ)ξ,β(ξ)=χ[0,H](ξ)ξ1,Φ(r)={c2r2+c3r3for r0c2r2for r>0 (1.5)

    where H is the horizon and χJ is shorthand for the indicator function of the interval J. The discrete-coupling case corresponds to

    Ψ(r,ξ)=Mm=1Φm(r)δξm(ξ), (1.6)

    where

    0<ξ1<...<ξM<

    represent a finite number of active bonds and δξm abbreviates a Dirac distribution centered at ξm. The integrals in the force term can hence be replaced by sums and the wave equation (1.3) is actually a nonlocal lattice differential equation. For instance, for M=1 and ξ1=1 we recover a variant of the classical Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain (FPUT) while M=2 with ξ1=1 and ξ2=2 describe an atomic chain with spring-like bonds between the nearest and the next-to-nearest neighbors.

    Of course, both the discrete-coupling case and the continuous-coupling case are closely related and (1.3) can be viewed as a generalized lattice equation with a continuum of active bonds. Moreover, (1.3)+(1.6) with

    Φm(x)=α(εm)Φ(β(εm)r),M=ε2 (1.7)

    is a discretized version of (1.3)+(1.4), in which the integrals have been approximated by Riemann sums with grid size ε>0 on the interval (0,ε1).

    Traveling waves and eigenvalue problem for the wave profile A traveling wave is a special solution to (1.3) that satisfies

    u(t,y)=U(x),x=yσt (1.8)

    with wave speed σ and profile function U depending on x, the spatial variable in the comoving frame. Combining this ansatz with (1.3) we obtain in the discrete-coupling case the advance-delay-differential equation

    σ2U(x)=Mm=1Φm(U(x+ξm)U(x))Φm(U(x)U(xξm)) (1.9)

    and a similar formula with integrals over infinitely many shift terms can be derived in the continuous-coupling case. As explained below in greater detail, the existence of solution to (1.9) with M=1 has been established by several authors using different methods but very little is known about the uniqueness and dynamical stability of lattice waves. For the peridynamical analogue with continuous coupling we are only aware of the rigorous existence result in [36] although there have been some attempts in the engineering community to construct traveling waves numerically or approximately, see [4,41]. For our purposes it is more convenient to reformulate the traveling wave equation as an integral equation for the wave profile

    W(x):=U(x),

    which provides the velocity component in a traveling wave via tu(t,y)=σW(x). To this end we write

    f(U(x+ξ)U(x),ξ)f(U(x)U(xξ),ξ)=xF(x,ξ) (1.10)

    with

    F(,ξ):=AξrΨ(AξW,ξ), (1.11)

    where the operator Aξ defined by

    (AξW)(x):=x+ξ/2xξ/2W(˜x)d˜x=(χξW)(x) (1.12)

    is the x-convolution with the indicator function χξ of the interval [ξ/2+ξ/2]. Thanks to (1.10) and (1.11) we infer from (1.3) and (1.8) that any traveling waves must satisfy the nonlinear eigenvalue problem

    σ2W=0AξrΨ(AξWξ)dξ+η, (1.13)

    where η is a constant of integration. The eigenvalue problem (1.13) is very useful for analytical investigations because the convolution operator (1.12) exhibits some nice invariance properties. Moreover, it also gives rise to an approximation scheme that can easily be implemented and shows — at least in practice — good convergence properties. Both issues will be discussed below in greater detail and many of the key arguments have already been exploited in the context of FPUT chains, see [6,15].

    To simplify the presentation, we restrict our considerations in this paper to the special case

    η=0 (1.14)

    but emphasize that this condition can always be guaranteed by means of elementary transformations applied to the wave profile and the micro-potentials, see for instance [15]. For solitary waves one can alternatively relate η to waves that are homoclinic with respect to a non-vanishing asymptotic state limx±W(x)0.

    Figure 1.  Top row. Numerical simulations of wave profiles for (1.5) with c1=1/2, c2=1/6, and several choices of the coupling horizon H. The data are computed by an implementation of the improvement dynamics (1.19) with negative initial profile, sufficiently small discretization parameter ε and sufficiently large periodicity length L. Notice that the profile functions are non-positive as in [41] so that the analytical results in §2 hold with respect to the reflected reference potential. Bottom row. Potential energy P(W) and wave speed σ in dependence of the constraint value K=K(W).

    Variational setting for solitary and periodic waves In this paper we construct solitary waves for systems with convex and super-quadratic interaction potential but for completeness we also discuss the existence of periodic waves. Other types of traveling waves or potentials are also very important but necessitate a more sophisticated analysis and are beyond the scope of this paper. Examples are heteroclinic waves or phase transition waves with oscillatory tails in systems with double-well potential as studied in [4,16,21,23,39,46] for atomic chains.

    For periodic waves we fix a length parameter 0<L< and look for 2L-periodic wave profiles that are square-integrable on the periodicity cell. This reads

    WL2(IL):={W:RRwithW()=W(+2L)andW2<}

    with

    W22:=ILW(x)2dx,IL:=(L,+L).

    For solitary waves we formally set L= and show in §2.5 that the corresponding waves can in fact be regarded as the limit of periodic waves as L. We also mention that any Aξ from (1.12) is a well-defined, bounded, and symmetric operator on L2(IL), see Lemma 2 below.

    Both for periodic and solitary waves we consider the potential energy functional

    P(W):=0ILΨ((AξW)(x),ξ)dxdξ

    as well as the functional

    K(W):=12W22,

    where the latter quantifies after multiplication with σ2 the integrated kinetic energy of a traveling wave. Using these energies we can reformulate the traveling wave equation (1.13) with (1.14) as

    σ2K(W)=P(W), (1.15)

    where denotes the Gâteaux derivative with respect to W and the inner product in L2(IL). In particular, in the discrete-coupling case we have

    P(W)=Mm=1ILΦm(AξmW)dx,P(W)=Mm=1AξmΦm(AξmW) (1.16)

    while the continuous-coupling case corresponds to

    P(W)=0ILα(ξ)Φ(β(ξ)AξW)dxdξ,P(W)=0α(ξ)β(ξ)AξΦ(β(ξ)AξW)dξ, (1.17)

    where we omitted the x-dependence of W and AξW to ease the notation.

    Existence result The existence of periodic and solitary traveling waves in FPUT chains has been studied intensively over the last two decades and any of the proposed methods can also be applied to peridynamical media although the discussion of the technical details might be more involved.

    1. The Mountain Pass Theorem allows to construct nontrivial critical points of the Lagrangian action functional

    Wσ2K(W)P(W)

    provided that the potential energy is super-quadratic and that the prescribed value of the wave speed σ is sufficiently large. For details in the context of FPUT chains we refer to [34] and the references therein.

    2. Another variational setting minimizes K subject to prescribed value of P, where σ2 plays the role of a Lagrange multiplier. This approach was first described in [13] for FPUT chains with super-quadratic potentials and has recently been generalized to peridynamical media in [36].

    3. It is also possible to construct traveling waves by maximizing P under the constraint of prescribed K. This idea was introduced in [6], has later been refined in [15] and provides also the base for our approach as it allows to impose additional shape constraints as discussed in §2. Moreover, a homogeneous constraint is more easily imposed than a non-homogeneous one and this simplifies the numerical computation of traveling waves.

    4. The concepts of spatial dynamics and center-manifold reduction have been exploited in [29,30] for lattice waves. This non-variational approach is restricted to small amplitude waves but provides — at least in principle — a complete picture on all solutions to (1.13). Moreover, explicit or approximate solutions are available for some special potentials or asymptotic regimes. We refer to [43,47] and the more detailed discussion in §3.

    Our key findings on the existence of peridynamical waves can informally be summarized as follows. The precise statements can be found in Assumption 1, Corollary 8, Proposition 9, and Proposition 10.

    Main result (existence of solitary waves). Suppose that the coefficients and interaction potentials in (1.4) or (1.6) are sufficiently smooth and satisfy natural integrability and super-quadraticity assumptions. Then there exists a family of solitary waves which is parameterized by K=K(W) and comes with unimodal, even, and nonnegative profile functions W. Moreover, each solitary wave can be approximated by periodic ones.

    Notice that almost nothing is known about the uniqueness or dynamical stability of solitary traveling waves in peridynamical media and it remains a very challenging task solve the underlying mathematical problems. In §3 we thus discuss the asymptotic regimes of near-sonic and high-speed waves, in which one might hope for first rigorous results in this context.

    Improvement dynamics and numerical simulations A particular ingredient to our analysis is the improvement operator

    T(W):=μ(W)P(W),μ(W):=W2/P(W)2, (1.18)

    which conserves the norm constraint K but increases the variational objective function P, see Proposition 4. Moreover, the operator T respects — under natural convexity and normalization assumptions on the involved micro-potentials — the unimodality, the evenness, and the positivity (or negativity) of W. This enables us in §2 to restrict the constrained optimization problem to a certain shape cone in L2(IL) without changing the Euler-Lagrange equation for maximizers, see Corollary 5.

    By iterating (1.18) in the discrete dynamics

    W0W1=T(W0)...Wn+1=T(Wn)... (1.19)

    we can also construct sequences (Wn)nN of profiles functions such that K(Wn) remains conserved while P(Wn) is bounded and strictly increasing in n. Using weak compactness for periodic waves as well as a variant of concentration compactness for solitary waves one can also show that there exist strongly convergent subsequences and that any accumulation point must be a traveling wave, see the proofs of Lemma 6 and Theorem 7. However, due to the lack of uniqueness results we are not able to prove the uniqueness of accumulation points or the convergence of the whole sequence. Moreover, the set of accumulation points might depend on the choice of the initial datum W0.

    The improvement mapping is nonetheless very useful for numerical purposes. Fixing a periodicity length L it can easily be implemented:

    1. divide the x-domain IL and the ξ-domain [0,) into a large but finite number of subintervals of length 0<ε1, and

    2. replace all integrals with respect to x and ξ by Riemann sums as in (1.7).

    The resulting scheme has been used to compute the numerical data presented in this paper. It shows very good and robust convergence properties in practice, and this indicates for a wide class of peridynamical media that there exists in fact a unique stable solution to the constrained optimization problem. A first example is shown in Figure 1 and corresponds to the peridynamical medium (1.5), for which approximate solitary waves are constructed in [41] by means of formal asymptotic expansions and ODE arguments. Notice that W0 was always chosen to be non-positive in order to pick up the super-quadratic branch in the potential and that there are no solitary waves extending into the harmonic branch, cf. the discussion at the beginning of §2.3.

    We finally mention that variants of (1.19) have already been used in [5,6,15] for the numerical computations of periodic waves in FPUT chains. Moreover, the improvement dynamics shares some similarities with the Petviashvili iteration for traveling waves in Hamiltonian PDEs, see for instance [37]. Both approximation schemes combine linear pseudo-differential operators with pointwise nonlinearities and a dynamical normalization rule, but the details are rather different. In particular, (1.19) comes with a Lyapunov function but does not allow to prescribe the wave speed.

    We now study the existence problem for a class of potentials in a certain cone of L2(IL) and begin by clarifying the precise setting.

    A smooth function Φ:[0,)[0,) is called weakly super-quadratic if it does not vanish identically and satisfies

    Φ(0)=Φ(0)=0,Φ(r)rΦ(r)0for allr0. (2.1)

    Such a function is increasing, convex, and grows at least quadratically since elementary arguments — including differentiation with respect to λ — show that

    Φ(r)r2Φ(r),Φ(λr)λ2Φ(r)forλ>1, (2.2)

    Examples are the harmonic potential Φ(r)=cr2 and any analytic function with non-negative Taylor-coefficients. In what follows we rely on the following standing assumption.

    Assumption 1. (admissible potentials) In the discrete-coupling case, each potential Φm is supposed to be super-quadratic in the sense of (2.1). In the continuous-coupling case, we assume that Φ is super-quadratic and that α, β are nonnegative functions on (0,) such that

    0(ξ+ξ2)α(ξ)β2(ξ)ϕ(ξ1/2β(ξ)2K)dξ<

    holds for all K>0 with ϕ(r):=r1|Φ(r)|. Moreover, in the proofs we suppose that each potential is three times continuously differentiable on the interval [0,).

    Both for finite and infinite L, we denote by C the positive cone of all L2(IL)-functions that are even, nonnegative and unimodal, where the latter means increasing and decreasing for L<x<0 and 0>x>L, respectively. This reads

    C:=¯{WCc(IL):W(x)=W(x)0 and W(x)=W(x)0 for all x0},

    where the closure has to be taken with respect to the norm in L2(IL), and we readily verify that C is a convex cone and closed under both strong and weak convergence. Moreover, the decay estimate

    0W(x)W22|x| (2.3)

    holds for any WC and any xIL.

    We next collect some important properties of the convolution operators Aξ and recall that sinc(y):=y1sin(y).

    Lemma 2. (properties of Aξ) For given ξ(0,), the following statements are satisfied for both finite and infinite L:

    1. Aξ maps L2(IL) to L2(IL)L(IL) with AξW2ξW2 and AξWξ1/2W2.

    2. Aξ is symmetric.

    3. Aξ diagonalizes in Fourier space and has symbol function ˆAξ(k)=ξsinc(kξ/2).

    4. Aξ respects the evenness, the non-negativity, and the unimodality of functions.

    Moreover, Aξ is compact for L< as it maps weakly converging into strongly converging sequences.

    Proof. All assertions follow from elementary computations and standard arguments, see for instance [15,Lemma 2.5].

    We are now able to show that our assumptions and definitions allow for a consistent setting of the variational traveling wave problem inside the cone C.

    Lemma 3. (properties of the potential energy functional) The functional P is well-defined, strongly continuous and Gâteaux differentiable on the cone C, where the derivative maps C continously into itself. Moreover, P is convex, super-quadratic in the sense of

    P(W),W2P(W)0,P(λW)λ2P(W)for λ1, (2.4)

    and non-degenerate as P(W)0 holds for any WC with P(W)>0.

    Proof. We present the proof for the continuous-coupling case (1.4) only but emphasize that the arguments for (1.6) are similar.

    Integrability: For given WC with K(W)=K we estimate

    0Φ(β(ξ)AξW)β(ξ)(sup0rβ(ξ)AξWϕ(r))AξWβ(ξ)ϕ(ξ1/2β(ξ)2K)AξW

    with ϕ as in Assumption 1, where we used that the super-quadraticity of Φ implies the monotonicity of ϕ. The estimates from Lemma 2 imply via

    AξΦ(β(ξ)AξW)2ξ2β(ξ)ϕ(ξ1/2β(ξ)2K)W2

    the estimate

    P(W)20α(ξ)β(ξ)AξΦ(β(ξ)AξW)2dξ<,

    and similarly we show P(W)< using (2.2). Moreover, since C is invariant under Aξ, multiplication with non-negative constants, and the composition with Φ, we easily show that P(W)C.

    Continuity: Let (Wn)nNC be a sequence that converges strongly in L2(IL) to some limit W, where the closedness properties of C imply WC. Extracting a subsequence we can assume that Wn converges pointwise to W and that there exists a dominating function ¯WL2(Il) such that |Wn(x)|¯W(x) for all nN and almost all xIL. Using the similar arguments as above we readily demonstrate that the functions

    Vn(ξ,):=α(ξ)β(ξ)AξΦ(β(ξ)AξWn)

    converge pointwise in (ξ,x) to V and are moreover dominated by a function ¯VL1((0,),L2(IL)). Lebesgue's theorem ensures the strong convergence P(Wn)P(W) in L2(IL) along the choosen subsequence and due to the uniqueness of the accumulation point we finally establish the convergence of the entire sequence by standard arguments. The proof of P(Wn)P(W) is analogous.

    Further properties: The convexity and super-quadraticity of P is a direct consequence of the corresponding properties of Φ, and the convexity inequality

    P(˜W)P(W)P(W),˜WW (2.5)

    ensures that any critical point of P must be a global minimizer. In particular, we find the implication

    P(W)>0=P(0)=minPP(W)0 (2.6)

    and the proof is complete.

    We emphasize that all arguments presented below hold analogously with WC for potentials that are super-quadratic on (,0], see Figure 1 for an application. If Φ is super-quadratic on R, our results imply under certain conditions the existence of two family of waves, which are usually called expansive (W0) or compressive (W0).

    In this paper, we prove the existence of traveling waves with unimodal profile functions for 0<L by solving the constrained optimization problem

    maximize P(W) subject to WCK (2.7)

    with

    CK:={WC:P(W)>0 and K(W)=K}. (2.8)

    We further set

    P(K):=sup{P(W):WCK} (2.9)

    and recall that σ2, the square of wave speed, can be regarded as the Lagrange multiplier to the norm constraint K(W)=K. The second important observation, which we next infer from the properties of the improvement dynamics, is that the shape constraint WC does not contribute to the Euler-Lagrange equation for solutions to (2.7). The analogous observation for FPUT chains has been reported in [15] and a similar result has been derived in [44] using different techniques.

    Proposition 4. (properties of the improvement dynamics) The set CK in (2.8) is invariant under the action of the improvement operator T in (1.18) and we have

    P(T(W))P(W)

    for any WCK, where equality holds if and only if W=T(W).

    Proof. The operator T is well defined on C due to (2.6) and the claimed invariance property is a direct consequence of Lemma 3. The convexity inequality (2.5) implies

    P(T(W))P(W)P(W),T(W)W=μ1(W)T(W),T(W)W=12μ1(W)T(W)W22, (2.10)

    where we used μ(W)>0 and that W2=T(W)2 holds by construction.

    Corollary 5. Any solution WCK to the optimization problem (2.7) satisfies the traveling wave equation (1.15) for some Lagrange multiplier σ2K1P(K)>0.

    Proof. Any maximizer W belongs to CK, so Proposition 1 ensures in combination with (1.18) the validity of (1.15) with σ2=μ1(W). Testing this equation with W we finally obtain

    σ22K=σ2W,W=P(W),W2P(W)=2P(K)

    thanks to (2.4).

    It remains to show the existence of maximizers and here we have to distinguish between the periodic case (L<0) and the solitary one (L=). The latter is more involved and will be discussed in the subsequent section.

    Lemma 6. (existence of periodic maximizers) For any K>0 and any 0<L<, the constrained optimization problem (2.7) admits at least one solution.

    Proof. Since the discrete coupling-case is rather simple, we discuss the continuous-coupling case only.

    Weak continuity of P_: Suppose that (Wn)nNCK converges weakly to W and notice that the properties of convolution operators imply the pointwise convergence Vn(x,ξ)V(x,ξ) for any xIL and any ξ with

    Vn(x,ξ):=α(ξ)Φ(β(ξ)(AξWn)(x)).

    By (2.2) and Lemma 2 we also have

    |(AξWn)(x)|ξ1/2Wn2

    as well as

    0Vn(x,ξ)12α(ξ)ϕ(ξ1/22K)(β(ξ)(AξWn)(x))2ξα(ξ)β2(ξ)ϕ(ξ1/22K)K,

    and since the right hand side is an integrable majorant on IL×[0,) according to Assumption 1, we conclude that P(Wn)P(W).

    Direct Method: Now let (Wn)nNCK be a maximizing sequence for (2.7). By weak compactness we can assume that Wn converges weakly to W and find

    WC,W22K,P(W)=P(K)>0.

    Since (2.4) implies

    P(K)P(2KW2W)2KW22P(W)

    we finally conclude that W2=2K, i.e., W belongs to CK. The assertion now follows from Corollary 5.

    The arguments in the proofs of Lemma 4 and Lemma 6 can also be used to show that any discrete orbit of the improvement dynamics (1.19) contains a strongly convergent subsequence and that any accumulation point must be a traveling wave. In particular, the estimate (2.10) can be viewed as a discrete analogue to LaSalle's invariance principle. It remains open under which conditions the optimization problem (2.7) has a unique solution and whether there exists further local maxima or unstable saddle points, see also the discussion in §1.

    We further emphasize that Lemma 6 does not automatically imply that the maximizer has a non-constant profile function. For purely harmonic potentials one can show by means of Fourier transform — see the discussion in §3.1 — that the periodic maximizer is always constant and in numerical simulations with super-quadratic functions that grow rather weakly near the origin we observe that the maximizer is constant for small K but non-constant for large K. A typical example with discrete coupling is presented in Figure 2 and relies on

    M=2,L=5,Φ1(r)=Φ2(r)=12r2+16r6, (2.11)

    i.e., on potentials with positive second but vanishing third derivative at r=0. Similar energetic localization thresholds can be found in [15] for FPUT chains and in [48] for coherent structures in other Hamiltonian systems. Below — see the comments to Proposition 2 and Proposition 10 — we discuss sufficient conditions to guarantee that the maximizer is non-constant.

    Figure 2.  Left panel: Numerical wave profiles for the lattice (2.11) and several values of K, computed with the improvement dynamics from very localized initial data. The numerical maximizer is basically a constant for K but clearly localized for . Right panel: Numerical values of the potential energy (gray, solid) and the speed (black, dashed) of the maximizer.

    Another, more degenerate and less smooth example with localization threshold is presented in Figure 3 and concerns the chain

    (2.12)

    with piecewise linear stress strain relation , for which explicit approximation formulas have been derived in [47].

    Figure 3.  Numerical simulations for the chain in (2.12) with localization threshold near K = 1.05. In this example, the potential is piecewise quadratic.

    We finally mention that there is no localization threshold in Hertzian chains with monomial interaction potential due to an extra scaling symmetry. We refer to Figure 4 for a numerical example with

    (2.13)

    and to [5,31,32] for a variant of the corresponding improvement dynamics, the super-exponential decay of the wave profiles, and asymptotic results for .

    Figure 4.  Left panel: Wave profile for the Hertzian chain (2.13) with and several values of the monomial exponent . Right panel: The corresponding distance profile .

    Solitary traveling waves do not exist in the harmonic case in which the involved potentials are purely quadratic. This follows by Fourier analysis arguments as described in §3, which reveal that the linear variant of the operator has no proper eigenfunctions but only continuous spectrum. In the variational setting, the non-existence of harmonic solitary waves becomes manifests in the lack of strong compactness for maximizing sequences. The usual strategy for both FPUT chains and peridynamical media is to require the potentials to grow super-quadratically in a proper sense and to exploit concentration compactness arguments to exclude the crucial vanishing and splitting scenarios for weakly convergent sequences. We follow a similar approach but the compactness conditions simplify since we work with unimodal functions.

    In what follows we call the optimization problem (2.7) genuinely super-quadratic if

    (2.14)

    Here, is defined in (2.9) and

    with

    represents the harmonic analogue to (2.7). Notice that (2.4) combined with the -homogeneity of ensures that if (2.14) is satisfied for some , then it also holds for all .

    We first show that (2.14) guarantees the existence of solitary waves and identify afterwards sufficient conditions for the nonlinear potential functions. Similar ideas have been used in [15] in the context of FPUT chains.

    Theorem 7. (strong compactness of maximizing sequences) Let and suppose that satisfies (2.14). Then, any sequence with admits a strongly convergent subsequence.

    Proof. Preliminaries: To elucidate the key ideas, we start with the discrete-coupling case (1.6) and discuss the necessary modification for (1.4) afterwards. Passing to a (not relabeled) subsequence we can assume that

    for some with . Our goal is to show

    (2.15)

    because this implies in combination with the weak convergence the desired strong convergence in the Hilbert space .

    Truncation in : For given we write

    and observe that

    (2.16)

    Moreover, by (1.16) we have

    with

    The unimodality and the evenness of combined with Lemma 2 and (2.3) imply

    where denotes a quantity that does not depend on or and becomes arbitrarily small as . In the same way we derive

    as well as

    due to the smoothness of and since the convolution kernel corresponding to is supported in . In summary, we have shown that

    (2.17)

    holds for any given and all .

    Further estimates: By construction, converges weakly as to and converges (for every ) pointwise to . Moreover, is pointwise bounded by and compactly supported in . We thus conclude that converges strongly in to and this implies

    where is allowed to depend on but vanishes in the limit . On the other hand, the super-quadraticity of , see (2.4), implies

    and in the same way we demonstrate

    We thus deduce

    from (2.17), and recalling that holds by construction, we arrive at

    (2.18)

    after writing and rearranging terms.

    Justification of (2.15): Since the weak convergence combined with (2.16) ensures

    we find the uniform tightness estimate

    because letting for fixed would otherwise produce a contradiction in (2.18). Combining this with and letting we thus obtain

    and this yields the desired result in the limit .

    Concluding remarks: All arguments can be generalized to the continuous-coupling case provided that the truncation in is accompanied by an appropriate cut-off in -space. More precisely, choosing two parameters we write

    where the three contributions on the right hand side stem from splitting the -integrating in (1.17) into three integral corresponding to , , and , respectively. Using the identity , which follows from (2.2), as well as Assumption 1 and Lemma 2 we then estimate

    where is independent of and vanishes for fixed in the limit . Moreover, in the same way we verify

    with as . To deal with the remaining term , we split the -integration as above and repeat all asymptotic arguments by using a combined error term instead of .

    Corollary 8. (existence of solitary waves) The constrained optimization problem (2.7) admits for and any with (2.14) at least one solution , which provides a solitary traveling wave.

    Proof. The existence of a maximizer is granted by Theorem 7 and Corollary 5 guarantees that this maximizer is a traveling wave.

    Notice that any solitary wave is expected to decay exponentially, where the heuristic decay rate depends only on and will be identified below in (3.5) using the imaginary variant of the underlying dispersion relation. The exponential decay can also be deduced rigorously from the traveling wave equation and the properties of the convolution operator , see [23] for the details in an FPUT setting.

    The natural strategy to verify (2.14) for sufficiently large is to fix a test profile and to show that the function

    is unbounded as . A special application of this idea is the following result, which guarantees the existence of solitary waves for all under mild assumptions. For simplicity we restrict our considerations to the case of continuous but finite-range interactions and mention that similar results hold if decays sufficiently fast or if holds for some in the discrete-coupling case.

    Proposition 9. (criterion for genuine super-quadraticity) Condition (2.14) holds for in the continuous-coupling case provided that and for some .

    Proof. Using Plancharel's theorem and the properties of the function we estimate

    (2.19)

    and define for any large a piecewise constant function by

    Since the unimodal function attains the value for and vanishes for , we arrive at the lower bound

    and conclude with that the upper bound in (2.19) is actually sharp. Consequently, we have

    for some positive constant independent of . Moreover, using the smoothness of and thanks to Lemma 2 we estimate

    where the small quantity is chosen such that

    In summary, we obtain

    for every large and some constant , so the claim follows by choosing sufficiently large.

    Similar ideas reveal for large and that the constant function cannot be the maximizer for problem (2.7) provided that grows sufficiently fast. In fact, we have

    (2.20)

    and verify for the estimate

    (2.21)

    The right hands side in (2.21), however, is typically larger than that from (2.20) provided that as .

    We finally show that the solitary waves provided by Corollary 8 can be approximated by periodic ones. To this end we write the -dependence of and explicitly.

    Proposition 10. (convergence of maximizers) Suppose that (2.14) is satisfied. Then we have

    (2.22)

    Moreover, any family with being a maximizer of problem (2.7) on converges along subsequences and in a strong -sense to a maximizer of problem (2.7) on .

    Proof. Convergence of maxima: For finite , we denote by

    the trivial continuation of to a function from , which satisfies as well as . Moreover, given a solitary maximizer we define for any the -periodic function to be the scaled periodic continuation of restricted to . This reads

    with

    and implies as well as . Since the kernel function in the convolution operator has compact support and since the decay estimate

    holds by (2.3) both for finite and infinite , we readily show

    with as , and deduce

    (2.23)

    Similarly, we find

    thanks to , and this implies

    (2.24)

    The claim (2.22) now follows from (2.23) and (2.24).

    Convergence of maximizers: By construction and (2.22) we have , so Theorem 7 ensures the existence of strongly -convergent subsequences. In particular, any accumulation point belongs to and satisfies as well as .

    Proposition 10 implies that the periodic solutions to the optimization problem (2.7) come with non-constant profile functions provided that is sufficiently large and that condition (2.14) is satisfied. We further mention that the techniques from the proof of Proposition 10 can be used to characterize the continuous-coupling case as the scaling limit of the discrete coupling case.

    In this section we briefly discuss some asymptotic properties of traveling waves in peridynamical media. We focus again on the continuous-coupling case (1.4) but the essential arguments can easily be modified to cover the lattice case (1.6) as well. To ease the notation we suppose

    and assume that the smooth and nonnegative coupling coefficients and sufficiently regular for and so that all integrals appearing below are well-defined.

    In the harmonic case we can solve the linear equation (1.13) by Fourier transform. More precisely, with

    and

    (3.1)

    we obtain the family of all even and periodic solutions, where the parameters , , and can be chosen arbitrarily. Of course, the waves for are neither unimodal nor positive and not relevant for the constrained optimization problem from §2 since we have

    but

    (3.2)

    for the harmonic standard potential. The dispersion relation for the peridynamical wave equation (1.1) is given by

    (3.3)

    and follows from inserting the ansatz in the linear variant of the dynamical model (1.3). Elementary asymptotic arguments reveal

    as well as

    provided that the coefficient functions and from (1.4) are sufficiently non-singular such that is integrable in . We refer to Figure 5 for an illustration and mention that the choice in (1.5) is less regular due to for .

    Figure 5.  Typical example of the functions and from (3.1) and (3.3) for a peridynamical medium with regular coefficient functions and . For FPUT chains, has infinitely many zeros while is periodic.

    The simplest linear PDE model that comprises the same asymptotic properties in its dispersion relation is

    This equation is well-posed as it can be written as the Banach-valued ODE

    where the bounded pseudo-differential operator has the symbol function

    A nonlinear analogue would be the PDE

    (3.4)

    which can be viewed as a variant of the regularized Boussinesq equation, see for instance [35]. The corresponding traveling wave ODE

    is of Hamiltonian type and admits homoclinic solutions provided that grows super-linearly and that is sufficiently large. It is desirable to explore the similarities and differences between the peridynamical model (1.1) and the PDE substitute (3.4) in greater detail.

    We finally observe that the complexified version of predicts the spatial decay of unimodal solitary waves with non-harmonic . In fact, the exponential ansatz

    (3.5)

    is compatible with (1.13) if and only if the rate parameter satisfies the transcendental equation

    This equation admits a unique positive and real solution for , and all solitary waves from §2 meet this condition due to the lower bound for the wave speed in Corollary 5 and since Proposition 10 combined with (3.2) implies .

    It is well-known that the Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation is naturally related to many nonlinear and spatially extended Hamiltonian systems as it governs the effective dynamics in the large wave-length regime, in which traveling waves propagate with near sonic speed, have small amplitudes, and carry small energies. For solitary waves in FPUT chains, this was first observed in [49] and has later been proven rigorously in [9]. We also refer to [8] for periodic KdV waves, to [3] for two-dimensional lattices, and to [14,28] for the more complicated case of polyatomic chains. Related results on initial value problems can be found in [25,26,38].

    The KdV equation also governs the near sonic limit of nonlocal lattices and the corresponding existence problem for solitary lattice wave has been investigated rigorously in [22]. In what follows we discuss how the underlying ideas and asymptotic techniques can be applied in the peridynamical setting (1.4) provided that

    The starting point for the construction of KdV waves is the ansatz

    (3.6)

    with sound speed from (3.1), natural scaling parameter , and rescaled space variable . Inserting this ansatz into (1.13), using the integral identity

    and dividing by we obtain a transformed integral equation for . This equations can be written as

    (3.7)

    where the operators

    and

    collect all terms that are linear and quadratic, respectively, with respect to , while

    with stems from the cubic and the higher order terms and does not contribute to the KdV limit.

    The key asymptotic observations for the limit is the formal asymptotic expansion

    (3.8)

    which provides in combination with the above formulas the formal limit equation

    with positive coefficients

    (3.9)

    This planar Hamiltonian ODE is precisely the traveling wave equation of the KdV equation and admits the homoclinic and even solution

    (3.10)

    which is moreover unique, unimodal, positive, and exponentially decaying. However, the asymptotic expansion in (3.8) is not regular but singular because the error terms involve higher derivatives. The rigorous justification of the limit problem (3.9) is therefore not trivial and necessitates the use of refined asymptotic techniques. Following [9], we use the corrector ansatz

    (3.11)

    which transforms (3.7) into

    where the linear operator

    represents the additional linear term that stems from the linearization of around . Moreover, the nonlinear operator

    is composed of small nonlinear terms in as well as residual terms depending on and only.

    The rigorous justification of the KdV limit can be achieved along the lines of [22] and hinges on the following crucial ingredients:

    1. The pseudo-differential operator is uniformly invertible and its inverse is almost compact in the sense that it can be written as the sum of a compact operator and a small bounded one. These statements follow from an asymptotic analysis of the corresponding symbol function

    (3.12)

    see Figure 6 for an illustration.

    Figure 6.  Cartoon of the symbol function from (3.12), plotted on a normal (left) and a large (right) scale.

    2. The symmetric operator is uniformly invertible on as it satisfies

    on that space, where the constant can be chosen independently of . This can be proven by contradiction using the almost compactness of and the fact, that the limiting operator

    has a one-dimensional nullspace in according to the Sturm-Liouville theory, which is spanned by the odd derivative of the KdV profile (3.10).

    3. For sufficiently small , the operator maps a certain ball in contractively into itself so that there exists a locally unique fixed point.

    In particular, for any sufficiently small there exists via (3.6) and (3.11) a near-sonic wave solution to (1.13). The nonlinear stability for such waves has been shown in the paper series [10,11,12] for FPUT chains, see also [27]. It remains a challenging task to generalize the proofs to the peridynamical case.

    Another well-known asymptotic regime concerns atomic chains with super-polynomially growing interaction potential and waves which propagate much faster than the sound speed and carry a huge amount of energy. It has been observed in [7,45] for FPUT chains with singular Lennard-Jones-types potential that both the distance and the velocity profiles of those high-speed waves converge to simple limit functions which are naturally related to the traveling waves in the hard-sphere model. In other words, the particles interact asymptotically by elastic collisions and traveling waves come with strongly localized profile functions. The asymptotic analysis of the high-energy limit of FPUT chains and the underlying advance-delay-differential equation has later been refined by the authors. In [17,18] they derive accurate and almost explicit approximation formulas for the wave profiles by combining a nonlinear shape ODE with local scaling arguments and natural matching conditions. Moreover, the local uniqueness, smooth parameter dependence, and nonlinear orbital stability of high-speed waves are established in [19,20] using similar two-scale techniques, the non-asymptotic part of the Friesecke-Pego theory from [10,11], and the enhancement by Mizumachi in [33].

    Preliminary computations as well as numerical simulations indicate that the high-energy waves in peridynamical media can likewise be approximated by simple profile functions. For two examples with discrete coupling we refer to Figure 7, which relies on

    (3.13)

    and illustrates that the wave profile converges as to the scaled indicator function of an interval provided that the interaction potentials grow faster than a polynomial. This implies that the corresponding distance profiles are basically piecewise affine but the details depend on the choice of the parameters.

    Figure 7.  Top row: Wave profile for example (3.13) with and several values of (left) as well as the corresponding distance profiles (right). Bottom row: Similar plots with , which is the typical choice for peridynamics.

    A rigorous asymptotic analysis of this numerical observation lies beyond the scope of this paper but first steps are already made in [2] for the nonlocal advance-delay-differential equations that govern solitary waves in two-dimensional FPUT lattices. More precisely, assuming exponentially growing potentials and using the multi-scale techniques from [17] one can derive a reduced Hamiltonian ODE system that can be expected to describe the local rescaling of the different distance profiles. This ODE, however, has more than two degrees of freedom and a qualitative or quantitative analysis of the relevant solutions is hence not trivial. It remains a challenging task to characterize the high-energy limit for peridynamical media or chains with more than nearest-neighbor interactions, and to justify the numerical observations in Figure 7.

    Some aspects of our work build upon analytical or numerical investigations in the theses of Benedikt Hewer and Fanzhi Chen, see [1,24]. We also acknowledge the financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG individual grant HE 6853/2-1).

    The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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    Eqbal Radwan wrote the manuscript and prepared figures, tables, and references. Etimad Alattar conceptualized the overall structure and edited the manuscript. Khitam Alwasife contributed critical comments to the draft and approved the manuscript. All the authors reviewed the draft.

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