This book presents a development of invariant manifold theory for a spe-
cific canonical nonlinear wave system -the perturbed nonlinear
Schrooinger equation. The main results fall into two parts. The first
part is concerned with the persistence and smoothness of locally
invariant manifolds. The sec- ond part is concerned with fibrations of
the stable and unstable manifolds of inflowing and overflowing invariant
manifolds. The central technique for proving these results is Hadamard's
graph transform method generalized to an infinite-dimensional setting.
However, our setting is somewhat different than other approaches to
infinite dimensional invariant manifolds since for conservative wave
equations many of the interesting invariant manifolds are infinite
dimensional and noncom pact. The style of the book is that of providing
very detailed proofs of theorems for a specific infinite dimensional
dynamical system-the perturbed nonlinear Schrodinger equation. The book
is organized as follows. Chapter one gives an introduction which surveys
the state of the art of invariant manifold theory for infinite
dimensional dynamical systems. Chapter two develops the general setup
for the perturbed nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Chapter three gives
the proofs of the main results on persistence and smoothness of
invariant man- ifolds. Chapter four gives the proofs of the main results
on persistence and smoothness of fibrations of invariant manifolds. This
book is an outgrowth of our work over the past nine years concerning
homoclinic chaos in the perturbed nonlinear Schrodinger equation. The
theorems in this book provide key building blocks for much of that work.