On kinks and other travelling-wave solutions of a modified sine-Gordon equation

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DOI10.1007/S11012-015-0143-YzbMATH Open1321.35007arXivmath-ph/0512002OpenAlexW2021820414MaRDI QIDQ497510FDOQ497510


Authors: Gaetano Fiore, Gabriele Guerriero, Enrico Mazziotti, Alfonso Maio Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 24 September 2015

Published in: Meccanica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give an exhaustive, non-perturbative classification of exact travelling-wave solutions of a perturbed sine-Gordon equation (on the real line or on the circle) which is used to describe the Josephson effect in the theory of superconductors and other remarkable physical phenomena. The perturbation of the equation consists of a constant forcing term and a linear dissipative term. On the real line candidate orbitally stable solutions with bounded energy density are either the constant one, or of kink (i.e. soliton) type, or of array-of-kinks type, or of "half-array-of-kinks" type. While the first three have unperturbed analogs, the last type is essentially new. We also propose a convergent method of successive approximations of the (anti)kink solution based on a careful application of the fixed point theorem.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0512002




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