Solitons: Conservation laws and dressing methods

Anastasia Doikou, Iain Findlay

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Abstract

We review some of the fundamental notions associated with the theory of solitons. More precisely, we focus on the issue of conservation laws via the existence of the Lax pair and also on methods that provide solutions to partial or ordinary differential equations that are associated to discrete or continuous integrable systems. The Riccati equation associated to a given continuous integrable system is also solved and hence suitable conserved quantities are derived. The notion of the Darboux–Bäcklund transformation is introduced and employed in order to obtain soliton solutions for specific examples of integrable equations. The Zakharov–Shabat dressing scheme and the Gelfand–Levitan–Marchenko equation are also introduced. Via this method, generic solutions are produced and integrable hierarchies are explicitly derived. Various discrete and continuous integrable models are employed as examples such as the Toda chain, the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger model, the Korteweg–de Vries and nonlinear Schrödinger equations as well as the sine-Gordon and Liouville models.
Original languageEnglish
Article number1930003
JournalInternational Journal of Modern Physics A
Volume34
Issue number06n07
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Mar 2019

Keywords

  • Solitons
  • conservation laws
  • dressing
  • integrable systems

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

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