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Multi-soliton solutions for the supercritical gKdV equations

Analysis of PDEs 2010-02-12 v2

Abstract

For the L^2 subcritical and critical (gKdV) equations, Martel proved the existence and uniqueness of multi-solitons. Recall that for any N given solitons, we call multi-soliton a solution of (gKdV) which behaves as the sum of these N solitons asymptotically as time goes to infinity. More recently, for the L^2 supercritical case, Cote, Martel and Merle proved the existence of at least one multi-soliton. In the present paper, as suggested by a previous work concerning the one soliton case, we first construct an N-parameter family of multi-solitons for the supercritical (gKdV) equation, for N arbitrarily given solitons, and then prove that any multi-soliton belongs to this family. In other words, we obtain a complete classification of multi-solitons for (gKdV).

Cite

@article{arxiv.1002.2354,
  title  = {Multi-soliton solutions for the supercritical gKdV equations},
  author = {Vianney Combet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.2354},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

32 pages, submitted, v2: hyperref links added

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