On universality of critical behaviour in Hamiltonian PDEs
arXiv:0804.3790
Abstract
Our main goal is the comparative study of singularities of solutions to the systems of first order quasilinear PDEs and their perturbations containing higher derivatives. The study is focused on the subclass of Hamiltonian PDEs with one spatial dimension. For the systems of order one or two we describe the local structure of singularities of a generic solution to the unperturbed system near the point of "gradient catastrophe" in terms of standard objects of the classical singularity theory; we argue that their perturbed companions must be given by certain special solutions of Painleve' equations and their generalizations.
arXiv comment59 pages, 2 figures. Amer. Math. Soc. Transl., to appear
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