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Integrable peakon equations with cubic nonlinearity

Hone, Andrew N.W., Wang, Jing Ping (2008) Integrable peakon equations with cubic nonlinearity. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 41 . ISSN 1751-8113. (doi:37200210.1088/1751-8113/41/37/372002) (KAR id:15691)

Abstract

We present a new integrable partial differential equation found by Vladimir Novikov. Like the Camassa-Holm and Degasperis-Procesi equations, this new equation admits peaked soliton (peakon) solutions, but it has nonlinear terms that are cubic, rather than quadratic. We give a matrix Lax pair for V Novikov's equation, and show how it is related by a reciprocal transformation to a negative flow in the Sawada-Kotera hierarchy. Infinitely many conserved quantities are found, as well as a bi-Hamiltonian structure. The latter is used to obtain the Hamiltonian form of the finite-dimensional system for the interaction of N peakons, and the two-body dynamics (N = 2) is explicitly integrated. Finally, all of this is compared with some analogous results for another cubic peakon equation derived by Zhijun Qiao.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 37200210.1088/1751-8113/41/37/372002
Additional information: Article identifier = 372002
Uncontrolled keywords: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI); Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
Subjects: Q Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Depositing User: Andrew Hone
Date Deposited: 20 Apr 2009 14:30 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:53 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/15691 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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