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The relations between smooth and peaked soliton solutions are reviewed for the Camassa-Holm (CH) shallow water wave equation in one spatial dimension. The canonical Hamiltonian formulation of the CH equation in action-angle variables is…
We consider the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation in the supercritical case, and we are interested in solutions which converge to a soliton in large time in H^1. In the subcritical case, such solutions are forced to be exactly solitons…
We study the motion of solitary-wave solutions of a family of focusing generalized nonlinear Schroedinger equations with a confining, slowly varying external potential, $V(x)$. A Lyapunov-Schmidt decomposition of the solution combined with…
We numerically investigate transverse stability and instability of so-called cnoidal waves, i.e., periodic traveling wave solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, under the time-evolution of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. In…
Synchronous collisions of solitons of the Korteweg -- de Vries equation are considered as a representative example of the interaction of a large number of solitons in a soliton gas. Statistical properties of the soliton field are examined…
Via a "tropical limit" (Maslov dequantization), Korteweg-deVries (KdV) solitons correspond to piecewise linear graphs in two-dimensional space-time. We explore this limit.
Discrete PT-symmetric square wells are studied. Their wave functions are found proportional to classical Tshebyshev polynomials of complex argument. The compact secular equations for energies are derived giving the real spectra in certain…
The one-dimensional Klein-Gordon equation is solved for the PT-symmetric generalized Hulthen potential in the scalar coupling scheme. The relativistic bound-state energy spectrum and the corresponding wave functions are obtained by using…
Studied here is the large-time behavior of solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries equation posed on the right half-line under the effect of a localized damping. Assuming as in \cite{linares-pazoto} that the damping is active on a set…
A detailed numerical study of the long time behaviour of dispersive shock waves in solutions to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) I equation is presented. It is shown that modulated lump solutions emerge from the dispersive shock waves. For…
In this work, the exact solutions for combined KdV-mKdV generalized equation as a linear superposition of Jacobi elliptic functions, $c_n(\xi,m)$, $d_n(\xi,m)$. When $m$ is set to one, the solution matches with well-known hyperbolic…
The one-dimensional Euler-Poisson system arises in the study of phenomena of plasma such as plasma solitons, plasma sheaths, and double layers. When the system is rescaled by the Gardner-Morikawa transformation, the rescaled system is known…
We study the behavior of solitary-wave solutions of some generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with an external potential. The equations have the feature that in the absence of the external potential, they have solutions describing…
Two page encyclopedic article about the Korteweg-de Vries equation covering historical perspective, solitary wave and periodic solutions, modern developments, properties and applications, and further reading.
We study linear Klein-Gordon equations with moving potentials motivated by the stability analysis of traveling waves and multi-solitons. In this paper, Strichartz estimates, local energy decay and the scattering theory for these models are…
A new type of wave-mean flow interaction is identified and studied in which a small-amplitude, linear, dispersive modulated wave propagates through an evolving, nonlinear, large-scale fluid state such as an expansion (rarefaction) wave or a…
In this article one will discuss the system of coupled nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations with different velocities and different masses. The nonlinearity considered is a general quadratic nonlinearity without any restriction. The method is a…
We obtain a dispersive long-time decay in weighted energy norms for solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation in a moving frame. The decay extends the results of Jensen, Kato and Murata for the equations of the Schr\"odinger type. We modify…
We study the Riemann geometric approach to be aimed at unifying soliton systems. The general two-dimensional Einstein equation with constant scalar curvature becomes an integrable differential equation. We show that such Einstein equation…
We employ the bifurcation theory of planar dynamical systems to investigate the exact travelling wave solutions of a generalized Degasperis-Procesi equation. The implicit expression of smooth soliton solutions is given. The explicit…