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On the construction of the KP line-solitons and their interactions

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2011-05-10 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

The line-soliton solutions of the Kadomtsev--Petviashvili (KP) equation are investigated in this article using the tau-function formalism. In particular, the Wronskian and the Grammian forms of the tau-function are discussed, and the equivalence of these two forms are established. Furthermore, the interaction properties of two special types of 2-soliton solutions of the KP equation are studied in details.

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@article{arxiv.0911.2290,
  title  = {On the construction of the KP line-solitons and their interactions},
  author = {Sarbarish Chakravarty and Tim Lewkow and Ken-ichi Maruno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.2290},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

16 pages, 6 figures, To appear in Applicable Analysis, Special Issue "Solitons and Integrable Systems"