Folded Solitary Waves and Foldons in(2+1) Dimensions

A general type of localized excitations, folded solitary waves and foldons, is defined and studied bothanalytically and graphically. The folded solitary waves and foldons may be folded in quite complicated ways andpossess quite rich structures and abundant interaction properties. The folded phenomenon is quite universal in the realnatural world. The folded solitary waves and foldons are obtained from a quite universal formula and the universalformula is valid for some quite universal (2+1)-dimensional physical models. The universal formula is also extendedto a more general form with many more independent arbitrary functions.