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arxiv: 0905.4668 · v1 · submitted 2009-05-28 · 🧮 math.AP · math-ph· math.MP· nlin.SI

Wave breaking in the short-pulse equation

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Sufficient conditions for wave breaking are found for the short-pulse equation describing wave packets of few cycles on the ultra-short pulse scale. The analysis relies on the method of characteristics and conserved quantities of the short-pulse equation and holds both on an infinite line and in a periodic domain. Numerical illustrations of the finite-time wave breaking are given in a periodic domain.

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