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A family of wave-breaking equations generalizing the Camassa-Holm and Novikov equations

arXiv:1412.4415 · doi:10.1063/1.4929661

Abstract

A 4-parameter polynomial family of equations generalizing the Camassa-Holm and Novikov equations that describe breaking waves is introduced. A classification of low-order conservation laws, peaked travelling wave solutions, and Lie symmetries is presented for this family. These classifications pick out a 1-parameter equation that has several interesting features: it reduces to the Camassa-Holm and Novikov equations when the polynomial has degree two and three; it has a conserved norm and it possesses -peakon solutions, when the polynomial has any degree; and it exhibits wave-breaking for certain solutions describing collisions between peakons and anti-peakons in the case .

25 pages; new material added: derivation of N-peakon equations, investigation of N=2 peakon/anti-peakon collisions showing wave breaking

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