Title
Quasi-integrability in deformed sine-Gordon models and infinite towers of conserved charges
Date Issued
01 February 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
We have studied the space-reflection symmetries of some soliton solutions of deformed sine-Gordon models in the context of the quasi-integrability concept. Considering a dual pair of anomalous Lax representations of the deformed model we compute analytically and numerically an infinite number of alternating conserved and asymptotically conserved charges through a modification of the usual techniques of integrable field theories. The charges associated to two-solitons with a definite parity under space-reflection symmetry, i.e. kink-kink (odd parity) and kink-antikink (even parity) scatterings with equal and opposite velocities, split into two infinite towers of conserved and asymptotically conserved charges. For two-solitons without definite parity under space-reflection symmetry (kink-kink and kink-antikink scatterings with unequal and opposite velocities) our numerical results show the existence of the asymptotically conserved charges only. However, we show that in the center-of-mass reference frame of the two solitons the parity symmetries and their associated set of exactly conserved charges can be restored. Moreover, the positive parity breather-like (kink-antikink bound state) solution exhibits a tower of exactly conserved charges and a subset of charges which are periodic in time. We back up our results with extensive numerical simulations which also demonstrate the existence of long lived breather-like states in these models. The time evolution has been simulated by the 4th order Runge–Kutta method supplied with non-reflecting boundary conditions.
Start page
105
End page
126
Volume
55
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física y Astronomía Matemáticas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85021649023
Source
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
ISSN of the container
10075704
Sponsor(s)
HB thanks Prof. L.A. Ferreira for enlightening discussions on quasi-integrability and FAPEMAT (Pronex-2009) for partial financial support in the initial stage of the work.
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