Travelling waves in lattice dynamical systems

For a class of one-dimensional lattice dynamical systems we prove the existence of periodic travelling waves with prescribed speed and arbitrary period. Then we study asymptotic behaviour of such waves for big values of period and show that they converge, in an appropriate topology, to a solitary travelling wave.

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