%0 Journal Article %T Continuous approximation of breathers in one and two dimensional DNLS lattices %A D. Bambusi %A T. Penati %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %R 10.1088/0951-7715/23/1/008 %X In this paper we construct and approximate breathers in the DNLS model starting from the continuous limit: such periodic solutions are obtained as perturbations of the ground state of the NLS model in $H^1(\RR^n)$, with $n=1,2$. In both the dimensions we recover the Sievers-Takeno (ST) and the Page (P) modes; furthermore, in $\RR^2$ also the two hybrid (H) modes are constructed. The proof is based on the interpolation of the lattice using the Finite Element Method (FEM). %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1942v1