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On radial sine-Gordon breathers

G L Alfimov1,4, W A B Evans2 and L Vázquez3

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Recommended by R E Goldstein

The problem of the existence of radial sine-Gordon breathers (i.e. radial solutions which are periodic in time and decay at infinity with respect to the spatial variable) in the (d + 1)-dimensional case (where d>1) is considered. We have constructed numerically such entities which have infinite energy; simultaneously, we give a numerical confirmation of the non-existence of such objects with finite energy. We offer an interpretation of the observed robustness of such entities as seen in numerical simulations. It is based on our numerical analysis of the problem in a bounded domain, 0<r<R, and with non-integer values of d.


PACS

02.30.Jr Partial differential equations

02.60.Cb Numerical simulation; solution of equations

MSC

62G35 Robustness

65Nxx Partial differential equations, boundary value problems

35Q53 KdV-like equations (Korteweg-de Vries, Burgers, sine-Gordon, sinh-Gordon, etc.) (See also 37K10)

35A05 General existence and uniqueness theorems

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Computational physics

Dates

Issue 5 (September 2000)

Received 16 July 1999, in final form 6 June 2000



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