The dispersionless 2D Toda equation: dressing, Cauchy problem, longtime behaviour, implicit solutions and wave breaking

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/9/095203zbMATH Open1165.37039arXiv0810.4676OpenAlexW1995168780MaRDI QIDQ3615481FDOQ3615481

Authors: S. V. Manakov, P. M. Santini 

Publication date: 20 March 2009

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We have recently solved the inverse spectral problem for one-parameter families of vector fields, and used this result to construct the formal solution of the Cauchy problem for a class of integrable nonlinear partial differential equations in multidimensions, including the second heavenly equation of Plebanski and the dispersionless Kadomtsev - Petviashvili (dKP) equation, arising as commutation of vector fields. In this paper we make use of the above theory i) to construct the nonlinear Riemann-Hilbert dressing for the so-called two dimensional dispersionless Toda equation $(exp(phi){)}_{tt}=ph{i}_{zet{a}_{1}zet{a}_2}$, elucidating the spectral mechanism responsible for wave breaking; ii) we present the formal solution of the Cauchy problem for the wave form of it: $(exp(phi){)}_{tt}=ph{i}_{xx}+ph{i}_{yy}$; iii) we obtain the longtime behaviour of the solutions of such a Cauchy problem, showing that it is essentially described by the longtime breaking formulae of the dKP solutions, confirming the expected universal character of the dKP equation as prototype model in the description of the gradient catastrophe of two-dimensional waves; iv) we finally characterize a class of spectral data allowing one to linearize the RH problem, corresponding to a class of implicit solutions of the PDE.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4676

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zbMATH Keywords

inverse spectral problemapplications to dispersionless 2D Toda equationone-parametric vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermodynamic formalism, variational principles, equilibrium states for dynamical systems (37D35) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20)

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