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Accelerating dynamical peakons and their behaviour

Mathematical Physics 2019-08-01 v3 math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

A wide class of nonlinear dispersive wave equations are shown to possess a novel type of peakon solution in which the amplitude and speed of the peakon are time-dependent. These novel dynamical peakons exhibit a wide variety of different behaviours for their amplitude, speed, and acceleration, including an oscillatory amplitude and constant speed which describes a peakon breather. Examples are presented of families of nonlinear dispersive wave equations that illust rate various interesting behaviours, such as asymptotic travelling-wave peakons, dissipating/anti-dissipating peakons, direction-reversing peakons, runaway and blow up peakons, among others.

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@article{arxiv.1902.05171,
  title  = {Accelerating dynamical peakons and their behaviour},
  author = {Stephen C. Anco and Elena Recio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.05171},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Typos corected. To appear in DCDS A

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