The Korteweg-de Vries equation and beyond

We review a new method for linearizing the initial-boundary value problem of the KdV on the semi-infinite line for decaying initial and boundary data. We also present a novel class of physically important integrable equations. These equations, which include generalizations of the KdV, of the modified KdV, of the nonlinear Schrödinger and of theN-wave interactions, are as generic as their celebrated counterparts and, furthermore it appears that they describe certain physical situations more accurately.     

Multidimensional Inverse Scattering for First-Order Systems

A method for solving the inverse problem for a class of multidimensional first-order systems is given. The analysis yields equations which the scattering data must satisfy; these equations are natural candidates for characterizing admissible scattering data. The results are used to solve the multidimensional N-wave resonant interaction equations.     

Soliton interactions of integrable models

The solution of integrable (n+1)-dimensional KdV system in bilinear form yields a dromion solution that is localized in all directions. The interactions between two dromions are studied both in analytical and in numerical for three (n+1)-dimensional KdV-type equations (n=1, 2, 3). The same interactive properties between two dromions (solitons) are revealed for these models. The interactions between two dromions (solitons) may be elastic or inelastic for different form of solutions.     

Exact soliton solutions of a D-dimensional nonlinear Schr?dinger equation with damping and diffusive terms

In the present study, we apply function transformation methods to the D-dimensional nonlinear Schr?dinger (NLS) equation with damping and diffusive terms. As special cases, this method applies to the sine-Gordon, sinh-Gordon, and other equations. Also, the results show that these equations depend on only one function that can be obtained analytically by solving an ordinary differential equation. Furthermore, certain exact solutions of these three equations are shown to lead to the exact soliton solutions of a D-dimensional NLS equation with damping and diffusive terms. Finally, our results imply that the planar solitons, N multiple solitons, propagational breathers, and quadric solitons are solutions to the sine-Gordon, sinh-Gordon, and D-dimensional NLS equations.     

New families of exact soliton-like solutions and dromion solutions to the (2+1)-dimensional higher-order Broer–Kaup equations

Using homogeneous balance method we obtain Bäcklund transformation (BT) and a linear partial differential equation of higher-order Broer–Kaup equations. As a result, new soliton-like solutions and new dromion solution and other exact solutions of (2 + 1)-dimensional higher-order Broer–Kaup equations are given. By analyzing a soliton-like solution, we get some dromions solutions. This method, which can be generalized to some (2 + 1)-dimensional nonlinear evolution equations, is simple and powerful.     

Liouville–Green–Olver Approximations for Complex Difference Equations

Liouville–Green (LG) orWKBapproximations for second-order lineardifferenceequations withcomplexcoefficients are obtained. Preciseboundsfor the error term in the asymptotic representation of theLGrecessive solution are given, and thedouble asymptoticnature, with respect to both,nand additional parameters, is shown; all this is in the spirit of F. W. J. Olver's rigorous work on theLGasymptotics for differential equations. Theholomorphiccharacter of such error terms, and hence of theLGbasis, is also established, when the coefficients of the difference equation are holomorphic. Qualitative properties, such as oscillation and growth of theLGbasis solutions, are displayed.Second-orderasymptotics with bounds is also obtained, and an application to three-term recurrences satisfied by certain orthogonal polynomials (a subclass of the Blumenthal-Nevai class), is made for illustration. The special case ofultrasphericalfunctions of the second kind is worked out in detail.     

Complex germ method in fock space. II. Asymptotic solutions corresponding to finite-dimensional isotropic manifolds

In an earlier paper [1], the authors obtained approximate solutions of second-quantized equations of the form $$i\varepsilon \frac{{\partial \Phi }}{{\partial t}} = H\left( {\sqrt \varepsilon \hat \psi ^ + ,\sqrt \varepsilon \hat \psi ^ - } \right)\Phi$$ (φ is an element of a Fock space, and φ^± are creation and annihilation operators) in the limit?→0. The construction of these solutions was based on the expression of the operators φ^± in the form $$\hat \psi ^ \pm = \frac{{Q \mp \varepsilon \delta /\delta Q}}{{\sqrt {2\varepsilon } }}$$ and on the application to the obtained infinite-dimensional analog of the Schrödinger equation of the complex germ method at a point. This gives asymptotic solutions in theQ representation that are concentrated at each fixed instant of time in the neighborhood of a point. In this paper, we consider and generalize to the infinite-dimensional case the complex germ method on a manifold. This gives asymptotic solutions in theQ representation that are concentrated in the neighborhood of certain surfaces that are the projections of isotropic manifolds in the phase space onto theQ plane. The corresponding asymptotic solutions in the Fock representation are constructed. Examples of constructed asymptotic solutions are approximate solutions of theN-particle Schrödinger and Liouville equations (N～1/?), and also quantum-field equations.     

Dressing for a Novel Integrable Generalization of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

We implement the dressing method for a novel integrable generalization of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. As an application, explicit formulas for the N-soliton solutions are derived. As a by-product of the analysis, we find a simplification of the formulas for the N-solitons of the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation given by Huang and Chen.     

Superposition principle and composite solutions to coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We show that the superposition principle applies to coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations with cubic nonlinearity where exact solutions may be obtained as a linear combination of other exact solutions. This is possible due to the cancelation of cross terms in the nonlinear coupling. First, we show that a composite solution, which is a linear combination of the two components of a seed solution, is another solution to the same coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Then, we show that a linear combination of two composite solutions is also a solution to the same equation. With emphasis on the case of Manakov system of two-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations, the superposition is shown to be equivalent to a rotation operator in a two-dimensional function space with components of the seed solution being its coordinates. Repeated application of the rotation operator, starting with a specific seed solution, generates a series of composite solutions, which may be represented by a generalized solution that defines a family of composite solutions. Applying the rotation operator to almost all known exact seed solutions of the Manakov system, we obtain for each seed solution the corresponding family of composite solutions. Composite solutions turn out, in general, to possess interesting features that do not exist in the seed solution. Using symmetry reductions, we show that the method applies also to systems of N-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Specific examples for the three-coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation are given.     

Large time behaviour of solutions of a system of generalized Burgers equation

In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of a system ofN partial differential equations. WhenN = 1 the equation reduces to the Burgers equation and was studied by Hopf. We consider both the inviscid and viscous case and show a new feature in the asymptotic behaviour.     

Periodic solutions of certain hybrid delay-differential equations and their corresponding difference equations

In this paper we use a method due to Carvalho (A method to investigate bifurcation of periodic solution in retarded differential equations, J. Differ. Equ. Appl. 4 (1998), pp. 17–27) to obtain conditions for the existence of nonconstant periodic solutions of certain systems of hybrid delay-differential equations. We first deal with a scalar equation of Lotka–Valterra type; then a system of two equations in two unknowns that could model the interactions of two identical neurons. It will be seen that such solutions are determined by solutions of corresponding difference equations. Another paper in which this method is used is by Cooke and Ladeira (Applying Carvalho's method to find periodic solutions of difference equations, J. Differ. Equ. Appl. 2 (1996), pp. 105–115).

We first state Carvalho's result.     

Solutions of two-dimensional Schrödinger-type equations in a magnetic field

We use the method of dressing by a linear operator of general form to construct new solutions of Schrödinger-type two-dimensional equations in a magnetic field. In the case of a nonunit metric, we integrate the class of solutions that admit a variable separation before dressing. In particular, we show that the ratio of the coefficients of the differential operators in the unit metric case satisfies the Hopf equation. We establish a relation between the solutions of the two-dimensional eikonal equation with the unit right-hand side and solutions of the Hopf equation.     

On the formulation of invariant imbedding problems

The formulation of an invariant imbedding problem from a given linear, two-point boundary-value problem is not unique. In this paper, we illustrate how the formulation of the problem by partitioning the original vectory(z) into [u(z),v(z)], can affect the numerical accuracy. In fact, the partitioning, the choice of theR, O system orS, T system of equations in Scott's method, the location and number of switch points, and the switching procedure, all influence the numerical results and the ease of obtaining solutions. A new method of switching and the appropriate formulas are described, namely, the repeated switching from theR, Q system to theR, Q system of equations or from theS, T system to theS, T system of equations.     

The n-Wave Procedure and Dimensional Regularization for the Scalar Field in a Homogeneous Isotropic Space

We obtain expressions for the vacuum expectations of the energy–momentum tensor of the scalar field with an arbitrary coupling to the curvature in an N-dimensional homogeneous isotropic space for the vacuum determined by diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. We generalize the n-wave procedure to N-dimensional homogeneous isotropic space–time. Using the dimensional regularization, we investigate the geometric structure of the terms subtracted from the vacuum energy–momentum tensor in accordance with the n-wave procedure. We show that the geometric structures of the first three subtractions in the n-wave procedure and in the effective action method coincide. We show that all the subtractions in the n-wave procedure in a four- and five-dimensional homogeneous isotropic space correspond to a renormalization of the coupling constants of the bare gravitational Lagrangian.     

Splitting-integrating method for inverse transformation ofn-dimensional digital images and patterns

The splitting-integrating method is proposed to normalize digital images and patterns inn dimensions under inverse transformation. This method is much simpler than other approaches because no solutions of nonlinear algebraic equations are required. Also, the splitting-integrating method produces images free from superfluous holes and blanks, which often occur in transforming digitized images by other methods.The splitting-integrating method has been applied successfully to pattern recognition and image processing; but no error analysis has been provided so far. Because the image greyness is represented as an integral value, we can derive by numerical analysis error bounds of approximate greyness solutions, to show that when piecewise constant and multi-linear interpolations are used, convergence ratesO(1/N) andO(1/N ²) can be obtained respectively, whereN is a division number such that a pixel in then-dimensional images is split intoN ⁿ subpixels. Moreover, numerical and graphical experiments are carried out for a sample of binary images in two dimensions, to confirm the convergence rates derived.     

Solutions of Semilinear Differential Equations Related to Harmonic Functions

This is an attempt to establish a link between positive solutions of semilinear equations Lu=−ψ(u) and Lv=ψ(v) where L is a second order elliptic differential operator and ψ is a positive function. The equations were investigated separately by a number of authors. We try to link them via positive solutions of a linear equation Lu=0 (we call them L-harmonic functions). Let D be an arbitrary open subset of ^d and let (D), (D) and (D) stand for the sets of all positive solutions in D for three equations mentioned above. We establish a 1–1 correspondence between certain subclasses of these classes. Similar results are obtained also for the corresponding parabolic equations. A probabilistic interpretation in terms of a superdiffusion is given in [1].     

All traveling wave exact solutions of three kinds of nonlinear evolution equations

In this article, we employ the complex method to obtain all meromorphic exact solutions of complex Klein–Gordon (KG) equation, modified Korteweg‐de Vries (mKdV) equation, and the generalized Boussinesq (gB) equation at first, then find all exact solutions of the Equations KG, mKdV, and gB. The idea introduced in this paper can be applied to other nonlinear evolution equations. Our results show that all rational and simply periodic solutions are solitary wave solutions, the complex method is simpler than other methods, and there exist some rational solutions w_2r,2(z) and simply periodic solutions w_1s,2(z),w_2s,1(z) in these equations such that they are not only new but also not degenerated successively by the elliptic function solutions. We have also given some computer simulations to illustrate our main results. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

New features of soliton dynamics in 2+1 dimensions

Exponentially localized soliton solutions have been found recently for all the equations of the hierarchy related to the Zakharov-Shabat hyperbolic spectral problem in the plane. In particular theN ²-soliton solution of the Davey-Stewartson I equation is considered. It is shown that the boundaries fix the kinematics of solitons, while the dynamics of their mutual interaction is determined by the chosen initial condition. The interacting solitons can have, asymptotically, zero mass and can simulate quantum effects as inelastic scattering, fusion and fission, creation and annihilation.Work supported in part by M.U.R.S.T.     

Symmetry Properties of Positive Solutions of Parabolic Equations on ℝ N : II. Entire Solutions

We consider nonautonomous quasilinear parabolic equations satisfying certain symmetry conditions. We prove that each positive bounded solution u on ? ^N  × (?∞, T) decaying to zero at spatial infinity uniformly with respect to time is radially symmetric around some origin in ? ^N . The origin depends on the solution but is independent of time. We also consider the linearized equation along u and prove that each bounded (positive or not) solution is a linear combination of a radially symmetric solution and (nonsymmetric) spatial derivatives of u. Theorems on reflectional symmetry are also given.     

Fast solution methods for fredholm integral equations of the second kind

Summary The main purpose of this paper is to describe a fast solution method for one-dimensional Fredholm integral equations of the second kind with a smooth kernel and a non-smooth right-hand side function. Let the integral equation be defined on the interval [–1, 1]. We discretize by a Nyström method with nodes {cos(j/N)} _j ^=0/N . This yields a linear system of algebraic equations with an (N+1)×(N+1) matrixA. GenerallyN has to be chosen fairly large in order to obtain an accurate approximate solution of the integral equation. We show by Fourier analysis thatA can be approximated well by , a low-rank modification of the identity matrix. ReplacingA by in the linear system of algebraic equations yields a new linear system of equations, whose elements, and whose solution , can be computed inO (N logN) arithmetic operations. If the kernel has two more derivatives than the right-hand side function, then is shown to converge optimally to the solution of the integral equation asN increases.We also consider iterative solution of the linear system of algebraic equations. The iterative schemes use bothA andÃ. They yield the solution inO (N ²) arithmetic operations under mild restrictions on the kernel and the right-hand side function.Finally, we discuss discretization by the Chebyshev-Galerkin method. The techniques developed for the Nyström method carry over to this discretization method, and we develop solution schemes that are faster than those previously presented in the literature. The schemes presented carry over in a straightforward manner to Fredholm integral equations of the second kind defined on a hypercube.