A deformation of the method of characteristics and the Cauchy problem for Hamiltonian PDEs in the small dispersion limit

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNT223zbMATH Open1317.35223arXiv1211.2676OpenAlexW3101626933MaRDI QIDQ5246397FDOQ5246397

Authors: D. Masoero, Andrea Raimondo 

Publication date: 21 April 2015

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a deformation of the method of characteristics valid for Hamiltonian perturbations of a scalar conservation law in the small dispersion limit. Our method of analysis is based on the 'variational string equation', a functional-differential relation originally introduced by Dubrovin in a particular case, of which we lay the mathematical foundation. Starting from first principles, we construct the string equation explicitly up to the fourth order in perturbation theory, and we show that the solution to the Cauchy problem of the Hamiltonian PDE satisfies the appropriate string equation in the small dispersion limit. We apply our construction to explicitly compute the first two perturbative corrections of the solution to the general Hamiltonian PDE. In the KdV case, we prove the existence of a quasi-triviality transformation at any order and for arbitrary initial data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2676

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zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawsHamiltonian perturbationsmall dispersion limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10)

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