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Hon-Wah Tam

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arXiv2014

Integrable Discretization of Soliton Equations via Bilinear Method and Bäcklund Transformation

In this paper, we present a systematic procedure to derive discrete analogues of integrable PDEs via Hirota's bilinear method. This approach is mainly based on the compatibility between an integrable system and its Bäcklund transformation. We apply this procedure to several equations, including the extended Korteweg-de-Vries (KdV) equation, the extended Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation, the extended Boussinesq equation, the extended Sawada-Kotera (SK) equation and the extended Ito equation, and obtain their associated semi-discrete analogues. In the continuum limit, these differential-difference systems converge to their corresponding smooth equations. For these new integrable systems, their Bäcklund transformations and Lax pairs are derived

math-ph↗

arXiv2003

Negative Volterra Flows and Mixed Volterra Flows and Their Infinitely Many Conservation Laws

In this article, by means of considering an isospectral operator equation which corresponds to the Volterra lattice, and constructing opportune time evolution problems with negative powers of spectral parameter, and using discrete zero curvature representation, negative Volterra flows are proposed. We also propose the mixed Volterra flows, which come from positive and negative volterra flows. From the Lax representation, we demonstrate the existence of infinitely many conservation laws for the two flows and give the corresponding conserved densities and the associated fluxes formulaically. Thus their integrability is further confirmed.

nlin.SI↗

arXiv2001

Nonlinear Modulation of Multi-Dimensional Lattice Waves

The equations governing weakly nonlinear modulations of $N$-dimensional lattices are considered using a quasi-discrete multiple-scale approach. It is found that the evolution of a short wave packet for a lattice system with cubic and quartic interatomic potentials is governed by generalized Davey-Stewartson (GDS) equations, which include mean motion induced by the oscillatory wave packet through cubic interatomic interaction. The GDS equations derived here are more general than those known in the theory of water waves because of the anisotropy inherent in lattices. Generalized Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations describing the evolution of long wavelength acoustic modes in two and three dimensional lattices are also presented. Then the modulational instability of a $N$-dimensional Stokes lattice wave is discussed based on the $N$-dimensional GDS equations obtained. Finally, the one- and two-soliton solutions of two-dimensional GDS equations are provided by means of Hirota's bilinear transformation method.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗