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Self-Similar Solutions of the Non-Strictly Hyperbolic Whitham Equations for the KdV Hierarchy

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems 2007-05-23 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study the Whitham equations for all the higher order KdV equations. The Whitham equations are neither strictly hyperbolic nor genuinely nonlinear. We are interested in the solution of the Whitham equations when the initial values are given by a step function.

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@article{arxiv.0704.2527,
  title  = {Self-Similar Solutions of the Non-Strictly Hyperbolic Whitham Equations for the KdV Hierarchy},
  author = {V. U. Pierce and Fei-Ran Tian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.2527},
  year   = {2007}
}

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31 pages, 1 figure