Small-amplitude fully localised solitary waves for the full-dispersion Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AADF3FzbMATH Open1406.35327arXiv1802.04823OpenAlexW3103709910WikidataQ129020405 ScholiaQ129020405MaRDI QIDQ4644663FDOQ4644663

Authors: Mats Ehrnström, Mark D. Groves 

Publication date: 8 January 2019

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The KP-I equation [ (u_t-2uu_x+ frac{1}{2}(�eta- frac{1}{3})u_{xxx})_x -u_{yy}=0 ] arises as a weakly nonlinear model equation for gravity-capillary waves with strong surface tension (Bond number $$). This equation admits --- as an explicit solution --- a `fully localised' or `lump' solitary wave which decays to zero in all spatial directions. Recently there has been interest in the emph{full-dispersion KP-I equation} [u_t + m({mathrm D}) u_x + 2 u u_x = 0,] where $m(mathrmD)$ is the Fourier multiplier with symbol [ m(k) = left( 1 + �eta |k|^2| ight)^{frac{1}{2}} left( frac{ anh |k|}{|k|} ight)^{frac{1}{2}} left( 1 + frac{2k_2^2}{k_1^2} ight)^{frac{1}{2}}, ] which is obtained by retaining the exact dispersion relation from the water-wave problem. In this paper we show that the FDKP-I equation also has a fully localised solitary-wave solution. The existence theory is variational and perturbative in nature. A variational principle for fully localised solitary waves is reduced to a locally equivalent variational principle featuring a perturbation of the variational functional associated with fully localised solitary-wave solutions of the {KP-I} equation. A nontrivial critical point of the reduced functional is found by minimising it over its natural constraint set.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04823

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zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variationssolitary wavesfull dispersion KP equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25)

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