On the non-integrability of the Popowicz peakon system

zbMATH Open1184.37049arXiv0808.2617MaRDI QIDQ2380919FDOQ2380919

Authors: M. Irle, Andrew Hone 

Publication date: 12 April 2010

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a coupled system of Hamiltonian partial differential equations introduced by Popowicz, which has the appearance of a two-field coupling between the Camassa-Holm and Degasperis-Procesi equations. The latter equations are both known to be integrable, and admit peaked soliton (peakon) solutions with discontinuous derivatives at the peaks. A combination of a reciprocal transformation with Painlev'e analysis provides strong evidence that the Popowicz system is non-integrable. Nevertheless, we are able to construct exact travelling wave solutions in terms of an elliptic integral, together with a degenerate travelling wave corresponding to a single peakon. We also describe the dynamics of N-peakon solutions, which is given in terms of an Hamiltonian system on a phase space of dimension 3N.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.2617

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zbMATH Keywords

Camassa-Holm equationpeakonsDegasperis-Procesi equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10)

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