Convergence conditions for iterative methods seeking multi-component solitary waves with prescribed quadratic conserved quantities Original Research Article

We obtain linearized (i.e., non-global) convergence conditions for iterative methods that seek solitary waves with prescribed values of quadratic conserved quantities of multi-component Hamiltonian nonlinear wave equations. These conditions extend the ones found for single-component solitary waves in a recent publication by Yang and the present author. We also show that, and why, these convergence conditions coincide with dynamical stability conditions for ground-state solitary waves.