MacKay, R.S. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 288 (2000) 1, pp. 174-198
Discrete breathers are time-periodic spatially localised motions in networks of oscillators. Their occurrence in three principal contexts is reviewed: (i) autonomous Hamiltonian or reversible systems, (ii) autonomous forced damped systems, and (iii) time-periodically forced systems. The main...