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We investigate dispersionless integrable systems in 3D associated with fourfolds in the Grassmannian Gr(3,5). Such systems appear in numerous applications in continuum mechanics, general relativity and differential geometry, and include…

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In an anisotropic medium, the refractive index depends on the direction of propagation. Zero index in a fixed direction implies a stretching of the wave to uniformity along that axis, reducing the effective number of dimensions by one. Here…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 S. A. R. Horsley

The geometric representation at a fixed frequency of the wavevector (or dispersion) surface $\omega(\vec k)$ for lossless, homogeneous dielectric--magnetic uniaxial materials is explored, when the elements of the relative permittivity and…

In this paper we consider an abstract Cauchy problem for a Maxwell system modelling electromagnetic fields in the presence of an interface between optical media. The electric polarization is in general time-delayed and nonlinear, turning…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Tomáš Dohnal , Mathias Ionescu-Tira , Marcus Waurick

We represent an algorithm allowing one to construct new classes of partially integrable multidimensional nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) starting with the special type of solutions to the (1+1)-dimensional hierarchy of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-05-13 A. I. Zenchuk

In this paper, we concerned with the propagation of sound waves through stratified media. Transport equation of nonlinear geometric optics in media with mixed nonlinearity, in the case of spatially varying density and entropy fields, is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Harsh V. Mahara , V. D. Sharma

We propose a multiscale approach for a nonlinear Helmholtz problem with possible oscillations in the Kerr coefficient, the refractive index, and the diffusion coefficient. The method does not rely on structural assumptions on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Roland Maier , Barbara Verfürth

The Maxwell equations have a fairly simple form. However, finding solutions of Maxwell's equations is an extremely difficult task. Therefore, various simplifying approaches are often used in optics. One such simplifying approach is to use…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 D. S. Kulyabov , A. V. Korolkova , T. R. Velieva , M. N. Gevorkyan

We construct pulse-type approximate solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic equations near diffractive points, allowing arbitrary (even infinite) order of grazing. We show that in low regularity spaces and the high frequency limit, such solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Jian Wang , Mark Williams

VWV's inhomogeneous wave solution to Maxwell equations in NIM are correct. In NIM, the modulations do not propagate along the Poynting vector.

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Valanju , R. M. Walser , A. P. Valanju

The models of the non-linear optics in which solitons were appeared are considered. These models are of paramount importance in studies of non-linear wave phenomena. The classical examples of phenomena of this kind are the self-focusing,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrei Maimistov

In this paper we provide sharp criteria for linear stability or instability of equilibria of collisionless plasmas in the presence of boundaries. Specifically, we consider the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system with specular reflection at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-21 Toan Nguyen , Walter A. Strauss

We analyze multidimensional Markovian integral equations that are formulated with a time-inhomogeneous progressive Markov process that has Borel measurable transition probabilities. In the case of a path-dependent diffusion process, the…

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The radiative transfer equation models the interaction of radiation with scattering and absorbing media and has important applications in various fields in science and engineering. It is an integro-differential equation involving time,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Min Zhang , Juan Cheng , Weizhang Huang , Jianxian Qiu

We apply the technique of integrable extensions to the symmetry pseudo-group of the r-th mdKP equation. This gives another look on deriving known coverings and allows us to find new coverings for this equation.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Oleg I. Morozov

Nonlinear waves in dispersive media can be succeptible to modulational instabilities. We examine a category of scalar equations, with general dispersion and monomial nonlinearity, including a large variety of KdV-like equations. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Bhavna Kaushik , Bernard Deconinck

Nonlinear integrable equations serve as a foundation for nonlinear dynamics, and fractional equations are well known in anomalous diffusion. We connect these two fields by presenting the discovery of a new class of integrable fractional…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2022-10-21 Mark J. Ablowitz , Joel B. Been , Lincoln D. Carr

Using diffeomorphism group vector fields on $\mathbb{C}$-multiplied tori and the related Lie-algebraic structures, we study multi-dimensional dispersionless integrable systems that describe conformal structure generating equations of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Oksana Ye. Hentosh , Yarema A. Prykarpatsky , Denis Blackmore , Anatolij K. Prykarpatski

A complete classification of compacton solutions is carried out for a generalization of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation involving nonlinear dispersion in two and higher spatial dimensions. In particular, precise conditions are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Stephen C. Anco , Maria Gandarias

The refractive index of a dielectric medium comprising both passive and inverted components in its permittivity was determined using two methods: (i) in the time domain, a finite-difference algorithm to compute the frequency-domain…

Optics · Physics 2007-12-07 Joseph B. Geddes , Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia