The origin and saturation of modulational instabilities

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(86)90218-6MaRDI QIDQ1078424zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicholas M. Ercolani, M. Gregory Forest, David W. McLaughlin

Publication date 1986

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(86)90218-6

zbMATH Keywords

dominant degrees of freedomperiodic sine-Gordon differential equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other special methods applied to PDEs (35A25) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Review text

The paper under review is an extended abstract of a work of the authors. It is known that the periodic sine-Gordon differential equation is a complicated infinite dimensional Hamiltonian system. However, frequently its asymptotic states, and those of nearby equations, are dominated by only a few degrees of freedom. The aim of the present report is to give an explanation of the origin of this low dimensionality and to describe a method for determining the dominant degrees of freedom.

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