Multipeakons and the classical moment problem (Q1588377)

We bring the short and corrected author's abstract: Classical results of Stieltjes are used to obtain explicit formulas for the peacon-antipeacon solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation. The closed form solution is expressed in terms of the orthogonal polynomials of the related classical moment problem. It is shown that collisions occur only in peacon-antipeacon pairs, and the details of the collisions are analyzed using results from the moment problem. A sharp result on the steepening of the slope at the time of collision is given. Asymptotic formulas are given and the scattering shifts are calculated explicity.