Symmetry reduction and soliton-like solutions for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation

DOI10.1134/S1995080218090366MaRDI QIDQ669526zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date 15 March 2019

Published in Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08460

zbMATH Keywords

symmetriessolitongeneralized Korteweg-de Vries equationsimilarity reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53)

Abstract: We analyze the gKdV equation, a generalized version of Korteweg-de Vries with an arbitrary function $f(u)$. In general, for a function $f(u)$ the Lie algebra of symmetries of gKdV is the $2$-dimensional Lie algebra of translations of the plane $xt$. This implies the existence of plane wave solutions. Indeed, for some specific values of $f(u)$ the equation gKdV admits a Lie algebra of symmetries of dimension grater than $2$. We compute the similarity reductions corresponding to these exceptional symmetries. We prove that the gKdV equation has soliton-like solutions under some general assumptions, and we find a closed formula for the plane wave solutions, that are of hyperbolic secant type.

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