Vector breathers in the Manakov system

We study theoretically the nonlinear interactions of vector breathers propagating on an unstable wavefield background. As a model, we use the two-component extension of the one-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation—the Manakov system. With the dressing method, we generate the multibreather solutions to the Manakov model. As shown previously in [D. Kraus, G. Biondini, and G. Kovačič, Nonlinearity 28(9), 3101, (2015)], the class of vector breathers is presented by three fundamental types I, II, and III. Their interactions produce a broad family of the two-component (polarized) nonlinear wave patterns. First, we demonstrate that the type I and the types II and III correspond to two different branches of the dispersion law of the Manakov system in the presence of the unstable background. Then, we investigate the key interaction scenarios, including collisions of standing and moving breathers and resonance breather transformations. Analysis of the two-breather solution allows us to derive general formulas describing phase and space shifts acquired by breathers in mutual collisions. The found expressions enable us to describe the asymptotic states of the breather interactions and interpret the resonance fusion and decay of breathers as a limiting case of infinite space shift in the case of merging breather eigenvalues. Finally, we demonstrate that only type I breathers participate in the development of modulation instability from small-amplitude perturbations withing the superregular scenario, while the breathers of types II and III, belonging to the stable branch of the dispersion law, are not involved in this process.     

Real Lax spectrum implies spectral stability

We consider the dynamical stability of periodic and quasiperiodic stationary solutions of integrable equations with 2 2 Lax pairs. We construct the eigenfunctions and hence the Floquet discriminant for such Lax pairs. The boundedness of the eigenfunctions determines the Lax spectrum. We use the squared eigenfunction connection between the Lax spectrum and the stability spectrum to show that the subset of the real line that gives rise to stable eigenvalues is contained in the Lax spectrum. For non-self-adjoint members of the AKNS hierarchy admitting a common reduction, the real line is always part of the Lax spectrum and it maps to stable eigenvalues of the stability problem. We demonstrate our methods work for a variety of examples, both in and not in the AKNS hierarchy.     

Generalized solitary waves in a finite‐difference Korteweg‐de Vries equation

Generalized solitary waves with exponentially small nondecaying far field oscillations have been studied in a range of singularly perturbed differential equations, including higher order Korteweg‐de Vries (KdV) equations. Many of these studies used exponential asymptotics to compute the behavior of the oscillations, revealing that they appear in the solution as special curves known as Stokes lines are crossed. Recent studies have identified similar behavior in solutions to difference equations. Motivated by these studies, the seventh‐order KdV and a hierarchy of higher order KdV equations are investigated, identifying conditions which produce generalized solitary wave solutions. These results form a foundation for the study of infinite‐order differential equations, which are used as a model for studying lattice equations. Finally, a lattice KdV equation is generated using finite‐difference discretization, in which a lattice generalized solitary wave solution is found.     

Generalizing the KP Hierarchies: Pfaffian Hierarchies

We derive the Pfaffian analogues of the equations in the single-component KP hierarchies and the modified KP hierarchies and present an example of a system derived by reduction of some of the equations in these Pfaffianized hierarchies.     

Prohibitions caused by nonlocality for nonlocal Boussinesq‐KdV type systems

It is found that two different celebrate models, the Korteweg de‐Vrise (KdV) equation and the Boussinesq equation, are linked to a same model equation but with different nonlocalities. The nonlocal KdV equation can be derived in two ways, via the so‐called consistent correlated bang companied by the parity and time reversal from the local KdV equation and via the parity and time reversal symmetry reduction from a coupled local KdV system which is a two‐layer fluid model. The same model can be called as the nonlocal Boussinesq system if the nonlocality is changed as only one of parity and time reversal. The nonlocal Boussinesq equation can be derived via the parity or time reversal symmetry reduction from the local Boussinesq equation. For the nonlocal Boussinesq equation, with help of the bilinear approach and recasting the multisoliton solutions of the usual Boussinesq equation to an equivalent novel form, the multisoliton solutions with even numbers and the head on interactions are obtained. However, the multisoliton solutions with odd numbers and the multisoliton solutions with even numbers but with pursuant interactions are prohibited. For the nonlocal KdV equation, the multisoliton solutions exhibit many more structures because an arbitrary odd function of can be introduced as background waves of the usual KdV equation.     

Geodesic Distance in Planar Graphs: An Integrable Approach

We discuss the enumeration of planar graphs using bijections with suitably decorated trees, which allow for keeping track of the geodesic distances between faces of the graph. The corresponding generating functions obey non-linear recursion relations on the geodesic distance. These are solved by use of stationary multi-soliton tau-functions of suitable reductions of the KP hierarchy. We obtain a unified formulation of the (multi-) critical continuum limit describing large graphs with marked points at large geodesic distances, and obtain integrable differential equations for the corresponding scaling functions. This provides a continuum formulation of two-dimensional quantum gravity, in terms of the geodesic distance. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary—05C30; Secondary—05A15, 05C05, 05C12, 68R05     

Three computational approaches to weakly nonlocal Poisson brackets

We compare three different ways of checking the Jacobi identity for weakly nonlocal Poisson brackets using the theory of distributions, pseudo-differential operators, and Poisson vertex algebras, respectively. We show that the three approaches lead to similar computations and same results.     

Soliton solutions to generalized discrete Korteweg-de Vries equations

New discrete equations of the simplest three-point form are considered that generalize the discrete Korteweg-de Vries equation. The properties of solitons, kinks, and oscillatory waves are numerically examined for three types of interactions between neighboring chain elements. An analogy with solutions to limiting continual equations is drawn.     

Dipole approximation in three-vortex dynamics

We solve the problem of the relative motion of two nearby vortices (a dipole pair) and a third vortex for different current functions. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 150, No. 3, pp. 409–416, March, 2007.     

Modulation theory solution for nonlinearly resonant,fifth‐order Korteweg–de Vries,nonclassical, traveling dispersive shock waves

A new class of resonant dispersive shock waves was recently identified as solutions of the Kawahara equation— a Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) type nonlinear wave equation with third‐ and fifth‐order spatial derivatives— in the regime of nonconvex, linear dispersion. Linear resonance resulting from the third‐ and fifth‐order terms in the Kawahara equation was identified as the key ingredient for nonclassical dispersive shock wave solutions. Here, nonlinear wave (Whitham) modulation theory is used to construct approximate nonclassical traveling dispersive shock wave (TDSW) solutions of the fifth‐ order KdV equation without the third derivative term, hence without any linear resonance. A self‐similar, simple wave modulation solution of the fifth order, weakly nonlinear KdV–Whitham equations is obtained that matches a constant to a heteroclinic traveling wave via a partial dispersive shock wave so that the TDSW is interpreted as a nonlinear resonance. The modulation solution is compared with full numerical solutions, exhibiting excellent agreement. The TDSW is shown to be modulationally stable in the presence of sufficiently small third‐order dispersion. The Kawahara–Whitham modulation equations transition from hyperbolic to elliptic type for sufficiently large third‐order dispersion, which provides a possible route for the TDSW to exhibit modulational instability.     

Inverse scattering transform for the defocusing Ablowitz–Ladik system with arbitrarily large nonzero background

In this work we develop the inverse scattering transform (IST) for the defocusing Ablowitz–Ladik (AL) equation with arbitrarily a large nonzero background at space infinity. The IST was developed in previous works under the assumption that the amplitude of the background satisfies a “small norm” condition . On the other hand, Ohta and Yang recently showed that the defocusing AL system, which is modulationally stable for , becomes unstable if , and exhibits discrete rogue wave solutions, some of which are regular for all times. Here, we construct the IST for the defocusing AL with , analyze the spectrum, and characterize the soliton and rational solutions from a spectral point of view. We formulate the direct and inverse problems by using a suitable uniformization variable, and pose the inverse problem as an RHP across a simple contour in the complex plane of the uniform variable. As a by‐product of the IST, we also obtain explicit soliton solutions, which are the discrete analog of the celebrated Kuznetsov–Ma, Akhmediev, Peregrine solutions, and which mimic the corresponding solutions for the focusing AL equation. Soliton solutions that are the analog of the dark soliton solutions of the defocusing AL equation in the case are also presented.     

Stochastic Perturbations of Line Solitons of KP

We consider the properties of localized solutions of the KP equation coupled to a stochastic noise. Corresponding to white noise, we find that the traveling waves are destroyed asymptotically, and we determine the distribution of the wave position and the arrival time. For generalized Ornstein–Uhlenbeck processes, we show that the only effect of noise is to render the asymptotic position random; in particular, when the noise has a sufficiently strong attenuation mechanism, the random wave coincides asymptotically with the unperturbed one. We also consider linearization of the corresponding Cauchy problem in the plane corresponding to this kind of initial data.     

Noncommutative Integrable Systems of Hydrodynamic Type

On noncommutative spaces, integrable hierarchies of hydrodynamic type systems (1-order quasilinear PDE’s) do not, in general, exist. Nevertheless, an infinite-component hydrodynamic chain defined below is shown to be integrable. Its modified version is also constructed and it exhibits a new purely noncommutative phenomenon: the number of modified variables is either or .     

Application of the GALI method to localization dynamics in nonlinear systems

We investigate localization phenomena and stability properties of quasiperiodic oscillations in N$N$ degree of freedom Hamiltonian systems and N$N$ coupled symplectic maps. In particular, we study an example of a parametrically driven Hamiltonian lattice with only quartic coupling terms and a system of N$N$ coupled standard maps. We explore their dynamics using the Generalized Alignment Index (GALI), which constitutes a recently developed numerical method for detecting chaotic orbits in many dimensions, estimating the dimensionality of quasiperiodic tori and predicting slow diffusion in a way that is faster and more reliable than many other approaches known to date.     

Lump solutions of the 2D Toda equation

In this research, the lump solution, which is rationally localized and decays along the directions of space variables, of a 2D Toda equation is studied. The effective method of constructing the lump solutions of this 2D Toda equation is derived, and the constraint conditions that make the lump solutions analytical and positive are obtained as well. Finally, three classes of lump solutions are constructed, 3D plots, density plots, and contour plots are given to illustrate this proposed method.     

An affine model for the actions in an integrable system with monodromy

We give a standard model for the flat affine geometry defined by the local action variables of a completely integrable system. We are primarily interested in the affine structure in the neighborhood of a critical value with nontrivial monodromy.      

Light Propagation in a Cole-Cole Nonlinear Medium via the Burgers-Hopf Equation

A new model of light propagation through a so-called weakly three-dimensional Cole-Cole nonlinear medium with short-range nonlocality was recently proposed. In particular, it was shown that in the geometric optics limit, the model is integrable and is governed by the dispersionless Veselov-Novikov (dVN) equation. The Burgers-Hopf equation can be obtained as a (1+1)-dimensional reduction of the dVN equation. We discuss its properties in the specific context of nonlinear geometric optics and consider an illustrative explicit example.__________Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 144, No. 1, pp. 102–109, July, 2005.     

Stratifications of hyperelliptic Jacobians and the Sato Grassmannian

In this paper, a one-dimensional family of stratifications on a hyperelliptic Jacobian is introduced. It generalizes a well-known stratification, considered in algebraic geometry, in the context of special divisors. The stratification is shown to be related to a natural stratification on the Sato Grassmannian, via an extension of Krichever's map. It is also related to the stratification associated to the Laurent solutions of certain vector fields which can both be seen as living on the Grassmannian or on the Jacobian.     

Discrete Symmetries of the n-Wave Problem

We show that discrete symmetries T of multicomponent integrable systems have a fine structure and can be represented as products of positive integer powers of pairwise commuting basis discrete transformations T _i . The calculations are completed for the n-wave problem.     

On a vector long wave-short wave-type model

A new vector long wave-short wave-type model is proposed by resorting to the zero-curvature equation. Based on the resulting Riccati equations related to the Lax pair and the gauge transformations between the Lax pairs, multifold Darboux transformations are constructed for the vector long wave-short wave-type model. This method is general and is suitable for constructing the Darboux transformations of other soliton equations, especially in the absence of symmetric conditions for Lax pairs. As an illustrative example of the application of the Darboux transformations, exact solutions of the two-component long wave-short wave-type model are obtained, including solitons, breathers, and rogue waves of the first, second, third, and fourth orders. All the solutions derived by the Darboux transformations involve square roots of functions, which is not observed in the investigation of other nonlinear integrable equations. This model describes new nonlinear phenomena.