86 research outputs found
Solitary waves of nonlinear nonintegrable equations
Our goal is to find closed form analytic expressions for the solitary waves
of nonlinear nonintegrable partial differential equations. The suitable
methods, which can only be nonperturbative, are classified in two classes.
In the first class, which includes the well known so-called truncation
methods, one \textit{a priori} assumes a given class of expressions
(polynomials, etc) for the unknown solution; the involved work can easily be
done by hand but all solutions outside the given class are surely missed.
In the second class, instead of searching an expression for the solution, one
builds an intermediate, equivalent information, namely the \textit{first order}
autonomous ODE satisfied by the solitary wave; in principle, no solution can be
missed, but the involved work requires computer algebra.
We present the application to the cubic and quintic complex one-dimensional
Ginzburg-Landau equations, and to the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation.Comment: 28 pages, chapter in book "Dissipative solitons", ed. Akhmediev, to
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Completeness of the cubic and quartic H\'enon-Heiles Hamiltonians
The quartic H\'enon-Heiles Hamiltonian passes the Painlev\'e test for
only four sets of values of the constants. Only one of these, identical to the
traveling wave reduction of the Manakov system, has been explicitly integrated
(Wojciechowski, 1985), while the three others are not yet integrated in the
generic case . We integrate them by building
a birational transformation to two fourth order first degree equations in the
classification (Cosgrove, 2000) of such polynomial equations which possess the
Painlev\'e property. This transformation involves the stationary reduction of
various partial differential equations (PDEs). The result is the same as for
the three cubic H\'enon-Heiles Hamiltonians, namely, in all four quartic cases,
a general solution which is meromorphic and hyperelliptic with genus two. As a
consequence, no additional autonomous term can be added to either the cubic or
the quartic Hamiltonians without destroying the Painlev\'e integrability
(completeness property).Comment: 10 pages, To appear, Theor.Math.Phys. Gallipoli, 34 June--3 July 200
Mappings preserving locations of movable poles: a new extension of the truncation method to ordinary differential equations
The truncation method is a collective name for techniques that arise from
truncating a Laurent series expansion (with leading term) of generic solutions
of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Despite its utility in
finding Backlund transformations and other remarkable properties of integrable
PDEs, it has not been generally extended to ordinary differential equations
(ODEs). Here we give a new general method that provides such an extension and
show how to apply it to the classical nonlinear ODEs called the Painleve
equations. Our main new idea is to consider mappings that preserve the
locations of a natural subset of the movable poles admitted by the equation. In
this way we are able to recover all known fundamental Backlund transformations
for the equations considered. We are also able to derive Backlund
transformations onto other ODEs in the Painleve classification.Comment: To appear in Nonlinearity (22 pages
Detection and construction of an elliptic solution to the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation
In evolution equations for a complex amplitude, the phase obeys a much more
intricate equation than the amplitude. Nevertheless, general methods should be
applicable to both variables. On the example of the traveling wave reduction of
the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGL5), we explain how to
overcome the difficulties arising in two such methods: (i) the criterium that
the sum of residues of an elliptic solution should be zero, (ii) the
construction of a first order differential equation admitting the given
equation as a differential consequence (subequation method).Comment: 12 pages, no figure, to appear, Theoretical and Mathematical Physic
Optical Solitary Waves in the Higher Order Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
We study solitary wave solutions of the higher order nonlinear Schrodinger
equation for the propagation of short light pulses in an optical fiber. Using a
scaling transformation we reduce the equation to a two-parameter canonical
form. Solitary wave (1-soliton) solutions exist provided easily met inequality
constraints on the parameters in the equation are satisfied. Conditions for the
existence of N-soliton solutions (N>1) are determined; when these conditions
are met the equation becomes the modified KdV equation. A proper subset of
these conditions meet the Painleve plausibility conditions for integrability.Comment: REVTeX, 4 pages, no figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Meromorphic traveling wave solutions of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation
We look for singlevalued solutions of the squared modulus M of the traveling
wave reduction of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation. Using
Clunie's lemma, we first prove that any meromorphic solution M is necessarily
elliptic or degenerate elliptic. We then give the two canonical decompositions
of the new elliptic solution recently obtained by the subequation method.Comment: 14 pages, no figure, to appear, Acta Applicandae Mathematica
On elliptic solutions of the cubic complex one-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equation
The cubic complex one-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equation is considered.
Using the Hone's method, based on the use of the Laurent-series solutions and
the residue theorem, we have proved that this equation has neither elliptic
standing wave nor elliptic travelling wave solutions. This result amplifies the
Hone's result, that this equation has no elliptic travelling wave solutions.Comment: LaTeX, 12 page
New variable separation approach: application to nonlinear diffusion equations
The concept of the derivative-dependent functional separable solution, as a
generalization to the functional separable solution, is proposed. As an
application, it is used to discuss the generalized nonlinear diffusion
equations based on the generalized conditional symmetry approach. As a
consequence, a complete list of canonical forms for such equations which admit
the derivative-dependent functional separable solutions is obtained and some
exact solutions to the resulting equations are described.Comment: 19 pages, 2 fig
The application of real-time PCR to the analysis of T cell repertoires
The diversity of T-cell populations is determined by the spectrum of antigen-specific T-cell receptors (TCRs) that are heterodimers of Ī± and Ī² subunits encoded by rearranged combinations of variable (AV and BV), joining (AJ and BJ), and constant region genes (AC and BC). We have developed a novel approach for analysis of Ī² transcript diversity in mice with a real-time PCR-based method that uses a matrix of BV- and BJ-specific primers to amplify 240 distinct BVāBJ combinations. Defined endpoints (Ct values) and dissociation curves are generated for each BVāBJ combination and the Ct values are consolidated in a matrix that characterizes the Ī² transcript diversity of each RNA sample. Relative diversities of BVāBJ combinations in individual RNA samples are further described by estimates of scaled entropy. A skin allograft system was used to demonstrate that dissection of repertoires into 240 BVāBJ combinations increases efficiency of identifying and sequencing Ī² transcripts that are overrepresented at inflammatory sites. These BVāBJ matrices should generate greater investigation in laboratory and clinical settings due to increased throughput, resolution and identification of overrepresented TCR transcripts
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