A restricted Bäcklund transformation

Journal of Mathematical Physics - Tập 14 Số 12 - Trang 1817-1828 - 1973
David W. McLaughlin1, Alwyn Scott2
1Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010
2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Tóm tắt

The Bäcklund transformation provides a mathematical tool which displays the interaction of solitons. Here a simple, systematic Bäcklund formalism is introduced which permits the explicit construction of these transformations for a restricted class of nonlinear wave equations. Traditionally a Bäcklund transformation has been viewed as a transformation of a solution surface of a partial differential equation into another surface which may not satisfy the same equation. In the present paper the term ``restricted Bäcklund transformation'' (hereafter abbreviated R-B) is used to refer to the case in which the transformed surface does satisfy the same equation. This formalism clarifies the nature of those transformations which have already been used to study nonlinear interactions in many physical problems. The formalism is introduced through a form of the linear Klein-Gordon equation. For this linear example a complete set of Fourier components is generated by a sequence of R-B transformations. This concrete example also indicates the type of results one can expect in the nonlinear case. For the nonlinear equation φx y = F(φ), a theorem is established which states that R-B transformations exist if and only if the nonlinearity F(·) satisfies F″ = κF, where κ is a constant. For such nonlinearities, the R-B transformations are explicitly constructed and are used to display exact nonlinear interactions. A relationship between the condition F″ = κF, the existence of an infinite number of conservation laws, and the transformation theory is briefly discussed.

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Journal of Mathematical Physics

Tập 14 Số 12

1817-1828

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