We apply a multiple–time version of the reductive perturbation method to study long waves as governed by the shallow water wave model equation. As a consequence of the requirement of a secularity–free perturbation theory, we show that the well known N–soliton dynamics of the shallow water wave equation, in the particular case of α = 2β, can be reduced to the N–soliton solution that satisfies si...

Who remembers 'Hirota's method'? In the early days of solitons, although the Korteweg-de Vries equation had been solved by the 'inverse scattering method' most solutions to integrable non-linear equations were found by simpler more direct methods. Outstanding among these was a method due mainly to Hirota, which involved casting the equation into a 'bilinear form' and then applying intelligent g...

An elementary yet remarkable similarity between the Cole-Hopf transformation relating the Burgers and heat equation and Miura's transformation connecting the KdV and mKdV equations is studied in detail. 1. Introduction Our aim in this note is to display the close similarity between the well-known Cole{Hopf transformation relating the Burgers and the heat equation, and the celebrated Miura trans...

A completely integrable partial differential equation is one which has a Lax representation, or, more precisely, can be solved via a linear integral equation of Gel'fand-Levitan type, the classic example being the Korteweg-de Vries equation. An ordinary differential equation is of Painlev type if the only singularities of its solutions in the complex plane are poles. It is shown that, under cer...

In this article, we prove that the initial value problem associated with the Korteweg-de Vries equation is well-posed in weighted Sobolev spaces X s,θ, for s ≥ 2θ ≥ 2 and the initial value problem associated with the nonlinear Schrödinger equation is well-posed in weighted Sobolev spaces X s,θ, for s ≥ θ ≥ 1. Persistence property has been proved by approximation of the solutions and using a pri...

Using our previous work on reflectionless analytic difference operators and a nonlocal Toda equation, we introduce analytic versions of the Volterra and Kac-van Moerbeke lattice equations. The real-valued N -soliton solutions to our nonlocal equations correspond to self-adjoint reflectionless analytic difference operators with N bound states. A suitable scaling limit gives rise to the N -solito...

A survey of topics of recent interest in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems, including accessible discussions of regularization of the central force problem; inequivalent Lagrangians and Hamiltonians; constants of central force motion; a general discussion of higher-order Lagrangians and Hamiltonians with examples from Bohmian quantum mechanics, the Korteweg-de Vries equation and the ...

We prove special decay properties of solutions to the initial value problem associated to the k-generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation. These are related with persistence properties of the solution flow in weighted Sobolev spaces and with sharp unique continuation properties of solutions to this equation. As application of our method we also obtain results concerning the decay behavior of pertu...

When a system supports two distinct long-wave modes with nearly coincident phase speeds, the weakly nonlinear and linear dispersion unfolding generically leads to two coupled Korteweg-de Vries equations. In this paper, we review the derivation of such systems in stratified fluids, extending previous studies by allowing for background shear flows. Coupled Korteweg-de Vries systems have very rich...