On the geometry of extended self-similar solutions of the Airy shallow water equations

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Abstract: Self-similar solutions of the so called Airy equations, equivalent to the dispersionless nonlinear Schr"odinger equation written in Madelung coordinates, are found and studied from the point of view of complete integrability and of their role in the recurrence relation from a bi-Hamiltonian structure for the equations. This class of solutions reduces the PDEs to a finite ODE system which admits several conserved quantities, which allow to construct explicit solutions by quadratures and provide the bi-Hamiltonian formulation for the reduced ODEs.


This paper deals with three reductions to the pair of quasi-linear PDEs, \(\eta_t+(\eta u)_x =0\) and \(u_t+uu_x+\eta_x=0\). The first reduction leads to a 5-dimensional system of ODEs whose polynomial solutions are of the form \(\eta(x,t)=\gamma(t) x^2+\omega(t)x+\zeta(t)\) and \(u(x,t)=\alpha(t)x+\beta(t)\). The second reduction gives a 3-dimensional system of ODEs whose parabolic-linear solutions are of the form \(\eta(x,t)=\gamma(t) x^2+\zeta(t)\) and \(u(x,t)=\alpha(t)x\). The third reduction gives a 4-dimensional system of ODEs whose linear-linear solutions are of the form \(\eta(x,t)=\omega(t)x+\zeta(t)\) and \(u(x,t)=\alpha(t)x+\beta(t)\). The 5-field system is solved by using its conserved quantities, the 3-field system is solved by reduction, while the 4-field system is solved by a straightforward inductive process. The bi-Hamiltonian structure of each system is studied by using the Lenard-Magri scheme.



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