Optical Solitons of the Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Kerr Nonlinearity and Dispersion of Unrestricted Order

Abstract

The family of the generalized Schrödinger equations with Kerr nonlinearity of unrestricted order is considered. The solutions of equations are looked for using traveling wave reductions. The Painlevé test is applied for finding arbitrary constants in the expansion of the general solution into the Laurent series. It is shown that the equation does not pass the Painlevé test but has two arbitrary constants in local expansion. This fact allows us to look for solitary wave solutions for equations of unrestricted order. The main result of this paper is the theorem of existence of optical solitons for equations of unrestricted order that is proved by direct calculation. The optical solitons for partial differential equations of the twelfth order are given in detail.