We study the existence of solitary waves in a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) lattice. For monatomic FPUT the traveling wave equations are a regular perturbation of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation's but, surprisingly, we find that for the diatomic lattice the traveling wave equations are a singular perturbation of KdV's. Using a method first developed by Beale to study traveling solutions for capillary-gravity waves we demonstrate that for wave speeds in slight excess of the lattice's speed of sound there exists nontrivial traveling wave solutions which are the superposition an exponentially localized solitary wave and a periodic wave whose amplitude is extremely small. That is to say, we construct nanopteron solutions. The presence of the periodic wave is an essential part of the analysis and is connected to the fact that linear diatomic lattices have optical band waves with any possible phase speed. 2 j

We study the existence of traveling waves in a spring dimer Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou (FPUT) lattice. This is a one-dimensional lattice of identical particles connected by alternating nonlinear springs. Following the work of Faver and Wright on the mass dimer, or diatomic, lattice, we find that the lattice equations in the long wave regime are singularly perturbed and apply a method of Beale to produce nanopteron traveling waves with wave speed slightly greater than the lattice's speed of sound. The nanopteron wave profiles are the superposition of an exponentially decaying term (which itself is a small perturbation of a KdV sech 2 -type soliton) and a periodic term of very small amplitude. Generalizing our work in the diatomic case, we allow the nonlinearity in the spring forces to have the more complicated form "quadratic plus higher order terms." This necessitates the use of composition operators to phrase the long wave problem, and these operators require delicate estimates due to the characteristic superposition of function types from Beale's ansatz. Unlike the diatomic case, the value of the leading order term in the traveling wave profiles alternates between particle sites, so that the spring dimer traveling waves are also "stegotons," in the terminology of LeVeque and Yong. This behavior is absent in the mass dimer and confirms the approximation results of Gaison, Moskow, Wright, and Zhang for the spring dimer.

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