A Numerical Study of the Light Bullets Interaction in the (2+1) Sine-Gordon Equation |
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Authors: | T Povich J Xin |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematical Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996, USA;(2) Department of Mathematics and ICES, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA |
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Abstract: | The propagation and interaction in more than one space dimension
of localized pulse solutions (so-called light bullets) to the sine-Gordon SG] equation is studied
both asymptotically and numerically. Similar solutions and their resemblance to solitons in integrable
systems were observed numerically before in
vector Maxwell systems. The simplicity of SG allows us to perform
an asymptotic analysis of counterpropagating pulses, as well
as a fully resolved
computation over rectangular domains.
Numerical experiments are carried out
on single pulse propagation and on two pulse
collision under different orientations.
The particle nature,
as known for solitons, persists in these two space dimensional solutions
as long as the amplitudes of initial data range in a finite interval,
similar to
the conditions on the vector Maxwell systems. |
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