Spectral theory for the periodic sine-Gordon equation: A concrete viewpoint

DOI10.1063/1.525509zbMath0498.35072OpenAlexW2068594806MaRDI QIDQ3963464

M. Gregory Forest, David W. McLaughlin

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525509

zbMATH Keywords

radiation inverse scattering transform solitons periodic sine-Gordon equation breather trains kink trains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Ordinary differential equations of infinite order (34A35) Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30)

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