Localized synchronous patterns in weakly coupled bistable oscillators

Abstract

Motivated by numerical continuation studies of coupled mechanical oscillators, we investigate branches of localized time-periodic solutions of one-dimensional chains of coupled oscillators. We focus on Ginzburg-Landau equations with nonlinearities of lambda-omega type and establish the existence of on-site and off-site solutions in the case of weak coupling and weak-amplitude dependence of the oscillator periods. Utilizing a core-far-field decomposition, we demonstrate that in-phase solutions lie on branches that exhibit snaking behavior.