Evolution of a randomly modulated breather in a nonlinear medium

The evolution of a randomly modulated sine-Gordon breather in a nonlinear medium is studied theoretically. The initial wave field is affected by multiplicative noise. For breather amplitude and velocity, the probability distribution function is determined by means of the inverse scattering transform and the method of cumulants. The distributions are shown to be non-Gaussian. The mean and the most probable values of the breather amplitude and velocity are calculated.