Numerical study of a multiscale expansion of the Korteweg de Vries equation and Painlev\'e-II equation

The Cauchy problem for the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation with small dispersion of order \e^2, \e\ll 1, is characterized by the appearance of a zone of rapid modulated oscillations. These oscillations are approximately described by the elliptic solution of KdV where the amplitude, wave-number and frequency are not constant but evolve according to the Whitham equations. Whereas the difference between the KdV and the asymptotic solution decreases as $\epsilon$ in the interior of the Whitham oscillatory zone, it is known to be only of order $\epsilon^{1/3}$ near the leading edge of this zone. To obtain a more accurate description near the leading edge of the oscillatory zone we present a multiscale expansion of the solution of KdV in terms of the Hastings-McLeod solution of the Painlev\'e-II equation. We show numerically that the resulting multiscale solution approximates the KdV solution, in the small dispersion limit, to the order $\epsilon^{2/3}$.Comment: 20 pages, 14 figure

Multiple Factorizations of Bivariate Linear Partial Differential Operators

We study the case when a bivariate Linear Partial Differential Operator (LPDO) of orders three or four has several different factorizations. We prove that a third-order bivariate LPDO has a first-order left and right factors such that their symbols are co-prime if and only if the operator has a factorization into three factors, the left one of which is exactly the initial left factor and the right one is exactly the initial right factor. We show that the condition that the symbols of the initial left and right factors are co-prime is essential, and that the analogous statement "as it is" is not true for LPDOs of order four. Then we consider completely reducible LPDOs, which are defined as an intersection of principal ideals. Such operators may also be required to have several different factorizations. Considering all possible cases, we ruled out some of them from the consideration due to the first result of the paper. The explicit formulae for the sufficient conditions for the complete reducibility of an LPDO were found also

Solitonic asymptotics for the Korteweg-de Vries equation in the small dispersion limit

We study the small dispersion limit for the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation $u_t+6uu_x+\epsilon^{2}u_{xxx}=0$ in a critical scaling regime where $x$ approaches the trailing edge of the region where the KdV solution shows oscillatory behavior. Using the Riemann-Hilbert approach, we obtain an asymptotic expansion for the KdV solution in a double scaling limit, which shows that the oscillations degenerate to sharp pulses near the trailing edge. Locally those pulses resemble soliton solutions of the KdV equation.Comment: 25 pages, 4 figure

On a class of three-dimensional integrable Lagrangians

We characterize non-degenerate Lagrangians of the form Z f(ux, uy, ut) dx dy dt such that the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations (fux )x+(fuy )y+(fut )t = 0 are integrable by the method of hydrodynamic reductions. The integrability conditions constitute an over-determined system of fourth order PDEs for the Lagrangian density f, which is in involution. The moduli space of integrable Lagrangians, factorized by the action of a natural equivalence group, is threedimensional. Familiar examples include the dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (dKP) and the Boyer-Finley Lagrangians, f = u3 x/3 + u2 y − uxut and f = u2 x + u2 y − 2eut , respectively. A complete description of integrable cubic and quartic Lagrangians is obtained. Up to the equivalence transformations, the list of integrable cubic Lagrangians reduces to three examples, f = uxuyut, f = u2 xuy + uyut and f = u3 x/3 + u2 y − uxut (dKP). There exists a unique integrable quartic Lagrangian, f = u4 x + 2u2 xut − uxuy − u2t . We conjecture that these examples exhaust the list of integrable polynomial Lagrangians which are essentially three-dimensional (it was verified that there exist no polynomial integrable Lagrangians of degree five). We prove that the Euler-Lagrange equations are integrable by the method of hydrodynamic reductions if and only if they possess a scalar pseudopotential playing the role of a dispersionless ‘Lax pair’

Intertwining Laplace Transformations of Linear Partial Differential Equations

We propose a generalization of Laplace transformations to the case of linear partial differential operators (LPDOs) of arbitrary order in R^n. Practically all previously proposed differential transformations of LPDOs are particular cases of this transformation (intertwining Laplace transformation, ILT). We give a complete algorithm of construction of ILT and describe the classes of operators in R^n suitable for this transformation. Keywords: Integration of linear partial differential equations, Laplace transformation, differential transformationComment: LaTeX, 25 pages v2: minor misprints correcte

Integrable Systems and Metrics of Constant Curvature

In this article we present a Lagrangian representation for evolutionary systems with a Hamiltonian structure determined by a differential-geometric Poisson bracket of the first order associated with metrics of constant curvature. Kaup-Boussinesq system has three local Hamiltonian structures and one nonlocal Hamiltonian structure associated with metric of constant curvature. Darboux theorem (reducing Hamiltonian structures to canonical form ''d/dx'' by differential substitutions and reciprocal transformations) for these Hamiltonian structures is proved

On the local systems Hamiltonian in the weakly nonlocal Poisson brackets

We study in this work the important class of nonlocal Poisson Brackets (PB) which we call weakly nonlocal. They appeared recently in some investigations in the Soliton Theory. However there was no theory of such brackets except very special first order case. Even in this case the theory was not developed enough. In particular, we introduce the Physical forms and find Casimirs, Momentum and Canonical forms for the most important Hydrodynamic type PB of that kind and their dependence on the boundary conditions.Comment: 45 pages, late

Hamiltonian systems of hydrodynamic type in 2 + 1 dimensions

We investigate multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems associated with constant Poisson brackets of hydrodynamic type. A complete list of two- and three-component integrable Hamiltonians is obtained. All our examples possess dispersionless Lax pairs and an infinity of hydrodynamic reductions.Comment: 34 page

Non-homogeneous systems of hydrodynamic type possessing Lax representations

We consider 1+1 - dimensional non-homogeneous systems of hydrodynamic type that possess Lax representations with movable singularities. We present a construction, which provides a wide class of examples of such systems with arbitrary number of components. In the two-component case a classification is given.Comment: 22 pages, latex, minor change