Analytical and Numerical Studies of KPI Lumps
摘要
A family of nonsingular rational solutions of the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (KP) I equation is investigated. These solutions have multiple peaks whose heights are time-dependent and the peak trajectories in the xy-plane are altered after collision. The anomalous scattering occurs due to a non-trivial internal dynamics among the peaks in a slow time scale. This phenomenon is explained by relating the peak locations to the roots of complex heat polynomials. It follows from the long-time asymptotics of the solutions that the peak trajectories separate as