On the wave length of smooth periodic traveling waves of the Camassa-Holm equation

This paper is concerned with the wave length of smooth periodic traveling wave solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation. The set of these solutions can be parametrized using the wave height a (or ''peak-to-peak amplitude''). Our main result establishes monotonicity properties of th...

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Autores: Geyer, Anna|||0000-0003-1834-2108, Villadelprat Yagüe, Jordi|||0000-0002-1168-9750
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:145296
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/145296
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.jde.2015.03.027
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Camassa-Holm equation
Traveling wave solution
Wave length
Wave height
Center
Critical period
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Sumario:This paper is concerned with the wave length of smooth periodic traveling wave solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation. The set of these solutions can be parametrized using the wave height a (or ''peak-to-peak amplitude''). Our main result establishes monotonicity properties of the map a (a), i.e., the wave length as a function of the wave height. We obtain the explicit bifurcation values, in terms of the parameters associated to the equation, which distinguish between the two possible qualitative behaviours of (a), namely monotonicity and unimodality. The key point is to relate (a) to the period function of a planar differential system with a quadratic-like first integral, and to apply a criterion which bounds the number of critical periods for this type of systems.