On the separability of the sine‐Gordon equation and similar quasilinear partial differential equations

1978 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 1573-1579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Osborne ◽  
Allan E. G. Stuart
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
DaZhao Lü ◽  
YanYing Cui ◽  
ChangHe Liu ◽  
ShangWen Wu

With the help of computer symbolic computation software (e.g.,Maple), abundant interaction solutions of sine-Gordon equation are obtained by means of a constructed Wronskian form expansion method. The method is based upon the forms and structures of Wronskian solutions of sine-Gordon equation, and the functions used in the Wronskian determinants do not satisfy linear partial differential equations. Such interaction solutions are difficultly obtained via other methods. And the method can be automatically carried out in computer.


Exact, particular solutions of the double sine Gordon equation in n dimensional space are constructed. Under certain restrictions these solutions are N solitons, where N ≤ 2 q — 1 and q is the dimensionality of spacetime. The method of solution, known as the base equation technique, relates solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations to solutions of linear partial differential equations. This method is reviewed and its applicability to the double sine Gordon equation shown explicitly. The N soliton solutions have the remarkable property that they collapse to a single soliton when the wave vectors are parallel.


We introduce a method for constructing solutions of homogeneous partial differential equations. This method can be used to construct the usual, well-known, separable solutions of the wave equation, but it also easily gives the non-separable localized wave solutions. These solutions exhibit a degree of focusing about the propagation axis that is dependent on a free parameter, and have many important potential applications. The method is based on constructing the space-time Fourier transform of a function so that it satisfies the transformed partial differential equation. We also apply the method to construct localized wave solutions of the wave equation in a lossy infinite medium, and of the Klein-Gordon equation. The localized wave solutions of these three equations differ somewhat, and we discuss these differences. A discussion of the properties of the localized waves, and of experiments to launch them, is included in the Appendix.


2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Franca ◽  
Russell Johnson

AbstractWe study the structure of the family of radially symmetric ground states and singular ground states for certain elliptic partial differential equations with p- Laplacian. We use methods of Dynamical systems such as Melnikov functions, invariant manifolds, and exponential dichotomy.


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