Hamiltonian structure for the modulation equations of a sine-Gordon wavetrain

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-87-05548-7zbMath0668.35064MaRDI QIDQ1118104

Richard Montgomery, David W. McLaughlin, Nicholas M. Ercolani, M. Gregory Forest

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann theta function; small parameter; sine-Gordon equation; Hamiltonian system; explicit representation; conservative, nonlinear, dispersive wave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B10: Periodic solutions to PDEs

35L70: Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations

35B30: Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

35C05: Solutions to PDEs in closed form

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