Degasperis–Procesi equation

In mathematical physics, the Degasperis–Procesi equation

$\displaystyle u_{t}-u_{{xxt}}+2\kappa u_{x}+4uu_{x}=3u_{x}u_{{xx}}+uu_{{xxx}}$

is one of only two exactly solvable equations in the following family of third-order, non-linear, dispersive PDEs:

$\displaystyle u_{t}-u_{{xxt}}+2\kappa u_{x}+(b+1)uu_{x}=bu_{x}u_{{xx}}+uu_{{xxx}},$

where $\kappa$ and b are real parameters (b=3 for the Degasperis–Procesi equation). It was discovered by Degasperis and Procesi in a search for integrable equations similar in form to the Camassa–Holm equation, which is the other integrable equation in this family (corresponding to b=2); that those two equations are the only integrable cases has been verified using a variety of different integrability tests.^[1] Although discovered solely because of its mathematical properties, the Degasperis–Procesi equation (with $\kappa > 0$) has later been found to play a similar role in water wave theory as the Camassa–Holm equation.^[2]

Soliton solutions

Among the solutions of the Degasperis–Procesi equation (in the special case $\kappa =0$) are the so-called multipeakon solutions, which are functions of the form

$\displaystyle u(x,t)=\sum _{{i=1}}^{n}m_{i}(t)e^{{-|x-x_{i}(t)|}}$

where the functions $m_{i}$ and $x_{i}$ satisfy^[3]

${\dot {x}}_{i}=\sum _{{j=1}}^{n}m_{j}e^{{-|x_{i}-x_{j}|}},\qquad {\dot {m}}_{i}=2m_{i}\sum _{{j=1}}^{n}m_{j}\,\operatorname{sgn} {(x_{i}-x_{j})}e^{{-|x_{i}-x_{j}|}}.$

These ODEs can be solved explicitly in terms of elementary functions, using inverse spectral methods.^[4]

When $\kappa > 0$ the soliton solutions of the Degasperis–Procesi equation are smooth; they converge to peakons in the limit as $\kappa$ tends to zero.^[5]

Discontinuous solutions

The Degasperis–Procesi equation (with $\kappa =0$) is formally equivalent to the (nonlocal) hyperbolic conservation law

$\partial _{t}u+\partial _{x}\left[{\frac {u^{2}}{2}}+{\frac {G}{2}}*{\frac {3u^{2}}{2}}\right]=0,$

where $G(x)=\exp(-|x|)$, and where the star denotes convolution with respect to x. In this formulation, it admits weak solutions with a very low degree of regularity, even discontinuous ones (shock waves).^[6] In contrast, the corresponding formulation of the Camassa–Holm equation contains a convolution involving both $u^{2}$ and $u_{x}^{2}$, which only makes sense if u lies in the Sobolev space $H^{1}=W^{{1,2}}$ with respect to x. By the Sobolev embedding theorem, this means in particular that the weak solutions of the Camassa–Holm equation must be continuous with respect to x.

Notes

1. Degasperis & Procesi 1999; Degasperis, Holm & Hone 2002; Mikhailov & Novikov 2002; Hone & Wang 2003; Ivanov 2005
2. Johnson 2003; Dullin, Gottwald & Holm 2004; Constantin & Lannes 2007; Ivanov 2007
3. Degasperis, Holm & Hone 2002
4. Lundmark & Szmigielski 2003, 2005
5. Matsuno 2005a, 2005b
6. Coclite & Karlsen 2006, 2007; Lundmark 2007; Escher, Liu & Yin 2007

References

• Coclite, Giuseppe Maria; Karlsen, Kenneth Hvistendahl (2006), "On the well-posedness of the Degasperis–Procesi equation" (PDF), J. Funct. Anal., 233 (1), pp. 60–91, doi:10.1016/j.jfa.2005.07.008
• Coclite, Giuseppe Maria; Karlsen, Kenneth Hvistendahl (2007), "On the uniqueness of discontinuous solutions to the Degasperis–Procesi equation" (PDF), J. Differential Equations, 234 (1), pp. 142–160, Bibcode:2007JDE...234..142C, doi:10.1016/j.jde.2006.11.008
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• Dullin, Holger R.; Gottwald, Georg A.; Holm, Darryl D. (2004), "On asymptotically equivalent shallow water wave equations", Physica D, 190, pp. 1–14, arXiv:nlin.PS/0307011, Bibcode:2004PhyD..190....1D, doi:10.1016/j.physd.2003.11.004
• Escher, Joachim; Liu, Yue; Yin, Zhaoyang (2007), "Shock waves and blow-up phenomena for the periodic Degasperis–Procesi equation", Indiana Univ. Math. J., 56 (1), pp. 87–117
• Hone, Andrew N. W.; Wang, Jing Ping (2003), "Prolongation algebras and Hamiltonian operators for peakon equations", Inverse Problems, 19 (1), pp. 129–145, Bibcode:2003InvPr..19..129H, doi:10.1088/0266-5611/19/1/307
• Ivanov, Rossen (2005), "On the integrability of a class of nonlinear dispersive wave equations", J. Nonlin. Math. Phys., 12 (4), pp. 462–468, Bibcode:2005JNMP...12..462R, doi:10.2991/jnmp.2005.12.4.2
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• Lundmark, Hans (2007), "Formation and dynamics of shock waves in the Degasperis–Procesi equation", J. Nonlinear Sci., 17 (3), pp. 169–198, Bibcode:2007JNS....17..169L, doi:10.1007/s00332-006-0803-3
• Lundmark, Hans; Szmigielski, Jacek (2003), "Multi-peakon solutions of the Degasperis–Procesi equation", Inverse Problems, 19 (6), pp. 1241–1245, arXiv:nlin.SI/0503033, Bibcode:2003InvPr..19.1241L, doi:10.1088/0266-5611/19/6/001
• Lundmark, Hans; Szmigielski, Jacek (2005), "Degasperis–Procesi peakons and the discrete cubic string", Internat. Math. Res. Papers, 2005 (2), pp. 53–116, arXiv:nlin.SI/0503036, doi:10.1155/IMRP.2005.53
• Matsuno, Yoshimasa (2005a), "Multisoliton solutions of the Degasperis–Procesi equation and their peakon limit", Inverse Problems, 21 (5), pp. 1553–1570, arXiv:nlin/0511029, Bibcode:2005InvPr..21.1553M, doi:10.1088/0266-5611/21/5/004
• Matsuno, Yoshimasa (2005b), "The N-soliton solution of the Degasperis–Procesi equation", Inverse Problems, 21 (6), pp. 2085–2101, arXiv:nlin.SI/0511029, Bibcode:2005InvPr..21.2085M, doi:10.1088/0266-5611/21/6/018
• Mikhailov, Alexander V.; Novikov, Vladimir S. (2002), "Perturbative symmetry approach", J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 35 (22), pp. 4775–4790, arXiv:nlin.SI/0203055v1, Bibcode:2002JPhA...35.4775M, doi:10.1088/0305-4470/35/22/309
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Further reading

  

• Coclite, Giuseppe Maria; Karlsen, Kenneth Hvistendahl; Risebro, Nils Henrik (2008), "Numerical schemes for computing discontinuous solutions of the Degasperis–Procesi equation" (PDF), IMA J. Numer. Anal., 28 (1), pp. 80–105, doi:10.1093/imanum/drm003
• Escher, Joachim (2007), "Wave breaking and shock waves for a periodic shallow water equation", Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 365 (1858), pp. 2281–2289, Bibcode:2007RSPTA.365.2281E, doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2008
• Escher, Joachim; Liu, Yue; Yin, Zhaoyang (2006), "Global weak solutions and blow-up structure for the Degasperis–Procesi equation", J. Funct. Anal., 241 (2), pp. 457–485, doi:10.1016/j.jfa.2006.03.022
• Escher, Joachim; Yin, Zhaoyang (2007), "On the initial boundary value problems for the Degasperis–Procesi equation", Phys. Lett. A, 368 (1–2), pp. 69–76, Bibcode:2007PhLA..368...69E, doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2007.03.073
• Guha, Parta (2007), "Euler–Poincaré formalism of (two component) Degasperis–Procesi and Holm–Staley type systems", J. Nonlin. Math. Phys., 14 (3), pp. 390–421, Bibcode:2007JNMP...14..390G, doi:10.2991/jnmp.2007.14.3.8
• Henry, David (2005), "Infinite propagation speed for the Degasperis–Procesi equation", J. Math. Anal. Appl., 311 (2), pp. 755–759, Bibcode:2005JMAA..311..755H, doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2005.03.001
• Hoel, Håkon A. (2007), "A numerical scheme using multi-shockpeakons to compute solutions of the Degasperis–Procesi equation" (PDF), Electron. J. Differential Equations, 2007 (100), pp. 1–22
• Lenells, Jonatan (2005), "Traveling wave solutions of the Degasperis–Procesi equation", J. Math. Anal. Appl., 306 (1), pp. 72–82, Bibcode:2005JMAA..306...72L, doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2004.11.038
• Lin, Zhiwu; Liu, Yue (2008), "Stability of peakons for the Degasperis–Procesi equation", Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 62 (1), pp. 125–146, arXiv:0712.2007, doi:10.1002/cpa.20239
• Liu, Yue; Yin, Zhaoyang (2006), "Global existence and blow-up phenomena for the Degasperis–Procesi equation", Comm. Math. Phys., 267 (3), pp. 801–820, Bibcode:2006CMaPh.267..801L, doi:10.1007/s00220-006-0082-5
• Liu, Yue; Yin, Zhaoyang (2007), "On the blow-up phenomena for the Degasperis–Procesi equation", Internat. Math. Res. Notices, 2007, doi:10.1093/imrn/rnm117
• Mustafa, Octavian G. (2005), "A note on the Degasperis–Procesi equation", J. Nonlin. Math. Phys., 12 (1), pp. 10–14, Bibcode:2005JNMP...12...10M, doi:10.2991/jnmp.2005.12.1.2
• Vakhnenko, Vyacheslav O.; Parkes, E. John (2004), "Periodic and solitary-wave solutions of the Degasperis–Procesi equation" (PDF), Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 20 (5), pp. 1059–1073, Bibcode:2004CSF....20.1059V, doi:10.1016/j.chaos.2003.09.043
• Yin, Zhaoyang (2003a), "Global existence for a new periodic integrable equation", J. Math. Anal. Appl., 283 (1), pp. 129–139, doi:10.1016/S0022-247X(03)00250-6
• Yin, Zhaoyang (2003b), "On the Cauchy problem for an integrable equation with peakon solutions", Illinois J. Math., 47 (3), pp. 649–666.
• Yin, Zhaoyang (2004a), "Global solutions to a new integrable equation with peakons", Indiana Univ. Math. J., 53 (4), pp. 1189–1209, doi:10.1512/iumj.2004.53.2479
• Yin, Zhaoyang (2004b), "Global weak solutions for a new periodic integrable equation with peakon solutions", J. Funct. Anal., 212 (1), pp. 182–194, doi:10.1016/j.jfa.2003.07.010