Scaling, self-similar solutions and shock waves for V-shaped field potentials

Abstract

We investigate a (1+1)-dimensional nonlinear field theoretic model with the field potential $V(\varphi )|=|\varphi |.$ It can be obtained as the universal small amplitude limit in a class of models with potentials which are symmetrically V-shaped at their minima, or as a continuum limit of certain mechanical system with infinite number of degrees of freedom. The model has an interesting scaling symmetry of the 'on shell' type. We find self-similar as well as shock wave solutions of the field equation in that model.

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