Lax integrability and the peakon problem for the modified Camassa-Holm equation

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Padé approximation (41A21)

Abstract: Peakons are special weak solutions of a class of nonlinear partial differential equations modelling non-linear phenomena such as the breakdown of regularity and the onset of shocks. We show that the natural concept of weak solutions in the case of the modified Camassa-Holm equation studied in this paper is dictated by the distributional compatibility of its Lax pair and, as a result, it differs from the one proposed and used in the literature based on the concept of weak solutions used for equations of the Burgers type. Subsequently, we give a complete construction of peakon solutions satisfying the modified Camassa-Holm equation in the sense of distributions; our approach is based on solving certain inverse boundary value problem the solution of which hinges on a combination of classical techniques of analysis involving Stieltjes' continued fractions and multi-point Pad'{e} approximations. We propose sufficient conditions needed to ensure the global existence of peakon solutions and analyze the large time asymptotic behaviour whose special features include a formation of pairs of peakons which share asymptotic speeds, as well as Toda-like sorting property.

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