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Under the effect of common perturbations, the multiple-soliton solution of the KdV equation is transformed into a sum of an elastic and a first-order inelastic component. The elastic component is a perturbation series, identical in…
The perturbed Burgers and KdV equations are considered. Often, the perturbation excites waves that are different from the solution one is seeking. In the case of the Burgers equation, the spontaneously generated wave is also a solution of…
We consider KdV-type equations with $C^1$ nonhomogeneous nonlinearities and small dispersion $\varepsilon$. The first result consists in the conclusion that, in the leading term with respect to $\varepsilon$, the solitary waves in this…
A new approach to the perturbative analysis of dynamical systems, which can be described approximately by soliton solutions of integrable nonlinear wave equations, is employed in the case of small-amplitude solutions of the ion acoustic…
For the focusing energy critical wave equation in 5D, we construct a solution showing the inelastic nature of the collision of any two solitons, except the special case of two solitons of same scaling and opposite signs. Beyond its own…
In the multiple-soliton case, the freedom in the expansion of the solution of the perturbed KdV equation is exploited so as to transform the equation into a system of two equations: The (inte-grable) Normal Form for KdV-type solitons, which…
The KdV-Sawada-Kotera equation has single-, two- and three-soliton solutions. However, it is not known yet whether it has N-soliton solutions for any N. Viewing it as a perturbed KdV equation, the asymptotic expansion of the solution is…
An alternative way for the derivation of the new KdV-type equation is presented. The equation contains terms depending on the bottom topography (there are six new terms in all, three of which are caused by the unevenness of the bottom). It…
Evolution of perturbed embedded solitons in the general Hamiltonian fifth-order Korteweg--de Vries (KdV) equation is studied. When an embedded soliton is perturbed, it sheds a one-directional continuous-wave radiation. It is shown that the…
In this paper we describe the inelastic character of solitons of some slowly varying gKdV equations. We give precise lower bounds, in the energy space, of the defect induced by the potential on the solution as time goes to infinite. For the…
A theory for constructing integrable couplings of soliton equations is developed by using various perturbations around solutions of perturbed soliton equations being analytic with respect to a small perturbation parameter. Multi-scale…
We describe an approach to construct multi-soliton asymptotic solutions for non-integrable equations. The general idea is realized in the case of three waves and for the KdV-type equation with nonlinearity $u^4$. A brief review of…
The construction of a solution of the perturbed KdV equation encounters obstacles to asymptotic integrability beyond the first order, when the zero-order approximation is a multiple-soliton wave. In the standard analysis, the obstacles lead…
We compute the vacuum polarization energies for a couple of soliton models in one space and one time dimensions. These solitons are mappings that connect different degenerate vacua. From the considered sample solitons we conjecture that the…
Numerical experiments involving the interaction of two solitary waves of the ion acoustic plasma equations are described. An exact 2-soliton solution of the relevant KdV equation was fitted to the initial data, and good agreement was…
The bi-Hamiltonian structure is established for the perturbation equations of KdV hierarchy and thus the perturbation equations themselves provide also examples among typical soliton equations. Besides, a more general bi-Hamiltonian…
A new three-dimensional second-order nonlinear wave equation is introduced which passes the Painleve test for integrability and possesses KdV-type multisoliton solutions. Lax integrability of this equation remains unknown.
Acoustic solitons obtained through a reductive perturbation scheme are normally governed by a Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. In multispecies plasmas at critical compositions the coefficient of the quadratic nonlinearity vanishes.…
This paper is devoted to the blow-up of analytic solutions with the emergence of irregular solutions.
Soliton gas or soliton turbulence is a subject of intense studies due to its great importance to optics, hydrodynamics, electricity, chemistry, biology and plasma physics. Usually, this term is used for integrable models where solitons…